Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This mentality extends far beyond the terminals. We don't have time to make do with anything slower than a T-1 connection. We can live virtual lives. Something tells me undergrads weren't pulling out their planners 25 years ago to pencil in Sunday brunch with their roommates. We hear the casualties of the computer age during exam time--with those who can no longer think sequentially and long for a word processor to help them organize their thoughts. Never mind love--there's no time for anything. Off to the gym, off to coffee, off to call...
...glance up at the bridge to nowhere; after all, the ugly, low-hanging structure (which they were paying for) cast a heinous shadow over their idyllic suburban landscapes, insulting their aesthetic sensibilities and corrupting their children. And it paid to look up occasionally, if only to make sure you weren't hit by falling debris...
...challenge for the Republicans was to make a case to rise above partisanship. They were unable to do that," Linsky said. "There wasn't a John Dean. There weren't tapes [like in Watergate...
...offense was tentative and a bit sloppy,"Sullivan said. "We weren't poised, we weren'tconfident in the team offensively. But it wasgreat to see us respond by making our freethrows...
...wedding announcements in the Sunday paper, wondering when I might find Mr. Right. So when I read the article about the happy couple who met through the online personals--she, an attractive editor; he, a saxophone-playing businessman--I was more than a little intrigued. Maybe online meetings weren't just a plot device for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. If seemingly normal people could find their soul mates on the Web, why couldn...