Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...text if ever there was one!) on the three-color 120'-long sign? Pondering, before Loker opened, how fresh material would be generated for the signs, we said, "Don't worry. As soon as the place opens, the students will have a million ideas. They'll take over." Humor, whim, news, animations, graphics, slow and soothing, wild and stimulatin--we thought it would pour in, and that technical or artistic geniuses would be hammering at the door of the computer closet...
...nightly, for example, is a boon to your interpersonal relationship skills. Not only will this hobby shine on your resume, but it will ensure you success with women. And guess what? Sex is on your terms. In your house. She comes in the side door and exits at your whim. And she isn't even a Cliffie...
...Fried made the case of `statism' [in the rentcontrol debate]," Turk says. "He argued that localcommunities have very limited powers and that itis the state which grants and withdraws powers atits whim. I think he has severely warped what wasthe home rule relationship between localcommunities and their states...
Does he spend much time there? "Sophomore year, kind of on a whim, I ran for a spot on the town meeting, one of three governing bodies in Lexington. I didn't do much, but I ended up losing by less than one percent...At that point, I realized this was something I could do, so the next year I campaigned, wrote in the town paper, the Lexington Minuteman, and distributed flyers. I won a three-year term...It's a very tough job, but it's fun too. You get right involved in running a town...
...think that's so in the U.C's case," Reichel said. "Nobody votes in our elections anyway, and to give a so-called popular mandate to the person who wins a limited popularity contest kind of puts us all at the mercy of his or her whim...