Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With the advent of April showers, however, come the hoards of prospective students—actually, more prospective parents—looking for a wayward admissions tip and a map to 8 Gardner Street. Do you mean Garden Street, sir? No, no, the woman on the phone said Gardner Street. Can you please hurry? The tour starts at 3 p.m.; it’s 12:30 now and I don’t want to be late...
...GMRS two-way radios ($329 a unit) not only offer twice the range (as far as five miles) but also come with a built-in global positioning system. Take a pair on a camping trip to Yellowstone, and you'll be able to track your buddies and wayward children. Punch in the coordinates, and the GPS satellites can guide you back to base camp--or the nearest McDonald...
...flying solo anymore but they aren’t yet a stressed New Family. The Couple can barely keep their hands off of one another, they make the stewardess come back to them when ordering drinks because they just have to finish their conversation. Glamourpuss gives the Couple a wayward glance and then continues the article about young love gone wrong. With a sardonic smile she knows that this one exudes too much hype to be the real deal...
...colleges, had to quit last week in disgrace when it emerged they were willing to admit a bright but not stellar boy whose father was offering to contribute $420,000. Unfortunately for them, the "father" was a reporter for the Sunday Times. Pembroke and Oxford swiftly repudiated their supposedly wayward officials. All Britain united in condemning the sale of university places. And who could disagree? In modern meritocracies, state-funded universities are supposed to be incubators of talent, not whorehouses for the already privileged. All the same, I find myself squirming at the neatness of this morality tale...
Although Tsvangirai welcomed the Commonwealth action as a message to Mugabe that his "wayward behavior" was unacceptable, he said he would be happier if the regional Southern African Development Community suspended Zimbabwe as well. But local leaders, in particular South Africa's Mbeki, are concerned that isolating Mugabe would increase regional instability...