Word: walks
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...other hand, I know it looks a little off when I walk down Sixth Avenue talking to myself or stop, gesticulating, for the light at 48th Street, and make a scathing, irrefutable point to, um, myself. It could be worse--Tourette's syndrome, for example. Tourette's sounds awful; this just looks crazy--or maybe a third of the way there. People in the street flick me a glance...
...that quickly displaces opiates and attaches itself to the same brain receptors that opiates seek out. During the several hours of detoxification, patients are under general anesthesia and unaware of the severe "shake and bake" symptoms they are enduring. Still, they are often dizzy, exhausted and barely able to walk after awakening. And they need the same follow-up counseling and treatment as conventionally detoxed addicts to keep them from slipping back into their old habits...
...that barely democratized constitution drawn up when China took over the shop. The Democratic Party, led by media-friendly Martin Lee, won a crushing victory Tuesday in the former colony's first free elections since the handover, with more than 43 percent of the vote. Yet when the Democrats walk triumphantly back into the ruling Legco -- where they were turfed out last July -- they'll find themselves with a toothless 13 percent of the seats. Thanks to Beijing's system of "functional" constituencies, two-thirds of the assembly was chosen by fewer than a hundred thousand "professional" voters...
...sixth grade. How can we talk rationally about such "reasons" for Letourneau's behavior as her husband's having a dead-end job or her father's dying of cancer or her having "bipolar disorder"? America is suffering from the Death of Common Sense. STEVEN M. WALK Great Neck...
...only are fewer Asian execs hitting the road, but also when they do travel, the purse strings are much tighter. From Japan's Nissan Motor to South Korea's Shinsegi Telecom, employees are being told to walk through business class to economy on airplanes and to downgrade from five-star hotels to four- or even three-star establishments when they land. "People used to buy normal tickets so they could change schedules a million times, but nowadays people fix their business meetings according to the schedule of their air tickets," says Yuko Sugihara, a Tokyo travel agent who specializes...