Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kamil: Yeah, whenever somebody tells me, "Oh, I was cool in high-school," I tell them "No, you weren...
...Arden: I know, I mean, "Of course you weren't!" I've been a dork my whole life, and I've never wanted to be anything else. I don't understand this desire to be a bad-ass. There are people who have walked past me, and apparently they are so cool, they don't say hello. I mean, if you say hello, they do not say hello back. And I sort of stand there and say, "What the fuck is going...
...butchering that modern-day ballad by the Backstreet Boys, but fewer were pleased when they brought their chickens into the classroom. How did professors feel when the first 15 minutes of their class were taken up by the vocal displays of these would-be club members? We bet they weren't all that happy...
...Angeles isn't the only place that has run into roadblocks while trying to end social promotion. In New York City, some advocates have said in lawsuits that parents weren't notified early enough that their kids were flunking. And in Chicago, which led the nation on the issue, a parents' group has filed civil rights complaints alleging that the promotion crackdown holds back a disproportionate number of black and Latino kids...
...gaggle of us around MARTA DORION, waiting for some tidbit to waft through her smoke-filled office, a last refuge for cigarette lovers here at TIME. Many who hated tobacco would suffer through nicotine haze just to listen. She'd been through Watergate, earthquakes and O.J., but those weren't the stories we were really interested in. It was the one she was living, the one we shared: the story of Time Inc. Marta's breadth of memory and experience at the company encompassed names and events that are history and legend--and she could tell the difference...