Word: weren
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...These people weren't worried about preserving their language--they learned English and learned it fast," he says. "The lynchpin of all their existence was economics. The rest of it was secondary...
...wouldn't be worth discussing if it weren't for a single undismissible fact: the same exact songs pop up at Harvard parties with a regularity that is frightening. I can't remember the last party I was at where I wasn't invited to Ride the Train. And every time I go out on the weekend, I can be almost sure that I'll be reminded (and reminded and reminded) that This is My Night, Dancing Free Till the Morning Light...
...thought the university was accepting of different ways of life and religions, and it turned out that I guess they weren't," Anderson says. "I guess I just would have appreciated an understanding because this is something that is important...
...instead of a happily percolating E-mail culture, what had evolved was a behavioral nightmare. "It was a disaster," he says. "My managers were getting 200 to 300 E-mails a day each. People were so enamored of it they weren't talking to each other. They were hibernating, E-mailing people in the next cubicle. They were abusing it." In just a few years, Wang's high-tech communications system had gone quietly berserk...
...them, Arnault has broken the rules. A former LVMH executive marvels, "He is ferocious, but remarkable in that he realized that he could ignore convention without ill effects to himself. At that time there were things that were not necessarily illegal, but that weren't done. The practices that should have excluded him from the business world in fact made him one of its pillars...