Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burrito bursting with rabbit food filler, the long line at the Border became understandable. The shrimps and mussels prepared in a "Veracruz style" is aesthetically pleasing but is in reality a watered down version of a Manhattan clam chowder with the wrong ingredients. And then there is Rosalita's Whim, a sampler plate of apparently what the chef is in the mood to cook. In one corner of the Whim were the chicken quesadillas, kid brother to the burrito without the salad bar inside. Covering the center of the plate was an assortment of barbecued sausage, shrimp and pork, drenched...
Iwent to the Yard Saturday to watch the first-years move in and to check out the renovations on last year's room in Hollis. On a whim, I knocked on my old door, introduced myself to the confused first-year inside, and told him his room was great. I'm jealous. He gets renovations; I get a snooker table. How do you play snooker, anyway...
...upon them that he alone understood the Scriptures. He changed his interpretations at will, while his unsteady flock struggled to keep up. In a tactic common to cult leaders, Koresh made food a tool for ensuring obedience. The compound diet was often insufficient, varying according to the leader's whim. Sometimes dinner was stew or chicken; at other times it might be nothing but popcorn. On their infrequent trips to Waco, cultists could be seen wolfing down packaged cheese in convenience stores. Household and dietary rules at the compound were as changeable as the theology. Koresh established strict bans...
Control over WordPerfect and Windows is delegated to small groups of programmers in Orem, Utah, and Redmond, Washington, respectively. They may or may not fix my problem, depending on everything from whim to budget constraints...
...Clintons, like the surgeons in the nightmare, seem to have the wrong patient. Their first concern should be us, the "consumers," whose symptoms include lack of coverage, inadequate coverage or the terror of losing insurance through a job change or the whim of some green-visored claims adjuster. Another worthy "patient" is American business, or at least businesses that offer health benefits to their employees. These benefits, which consume one-fourth of corporate net income, have become like cement shoes on the feet of American enterprise, threatening to hobble the entire economy...