Gd4 Flashcards
(231 cards)
1
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Shall I give a piece of
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my mind
2
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The companies involved are not going to cry stinking
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fish for sell
3
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An egomaniac
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A
4
Q
She looked at the reflection of herself and pursed
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her lips disgustedly
5
Q
He lounged on the steps,
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pouting
6
Q
It is a sad day when a politician loses his mind and
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pouts and cries like a spoiled eight year old brat because he did not get the way he wanted
7
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A lorry backed into the wall and buckled
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the gate
8
Q
A weak person may buckle under
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the strain
9
Q
The rent is
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astronomical
10
Q
It is a perfect place to
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unwind
11
Q
Midget
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hockey
12
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Diversity is only beautiful when it is
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inclusive
13
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The repertoire of BTB has been well played
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out, and the academic muscle, as it were, of both the teachers and students has been nicely flexed
14
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Some of our new industries are reaching critical
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mass
15
Q
The buzzing sound grated on
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her nerves
16
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To go with the
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punches
17
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He was apprehended in Hong Kong on Friday night in a
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globally-coordinated raid
18
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Tsang, who was convicted of several offences in absentia in the UK, was the subject of a global manhunt that narrowed down his whereabouts after an international
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arrest warrant was issued under his name
19
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He was found guilty in absentia of two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault by penetration, and was facing the
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prospect of a lengthy prison sentence after his first trial ended in a conviction months earlier
20
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He was not initially considered a flight risk as the judge at the first trial ordered him to surrender
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his British passport, pay a bond, wear an electronic tag, observe a curfew and attend regular court hearings
21
Q
Tsang conformed to all
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the mandates
22
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Just days before his second trial was due to
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take place, Tsang is known to have tried to sell an iPhone
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His last known visit to Hong Kong was in January 2013, as his Facebook posts
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attest
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Many of these claims do not stand up to
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close scrutiny
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It speaks
volumes about
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Our subway system is a marvel in
motion compared with its counterparts
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You think taxi drivers have
attitude here? It is all relative
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To dodge suitcase-wheeling
hordes of mainland tourists
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The money-grubbing
culture in Hong Kong
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My answer is a resounding
yes
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Foreigners lining up for
residency here
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To chase up a tax
bill
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It is so smooth and
hassle-free
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Neighbourhoods that may be poor and
rundown but are steeped in proud tradition
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That might suggest
otherwise
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Tipsy
revellers
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You will feel a chill
in the air
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Hong Kong tutorial school tries to poach
top teacher from rival institution
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Has earned a reputation for being travel
pests
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To bare all at famous world
monuments
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To pose in the
buff
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The company was slapped with
a fine
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Some, though, has caused a stink by relieving
themselves in inappropriate places
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The Colosseum of in Rome has been the victim of
a spate of vandalism
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Drunken
escapades
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It is rather the worse for wear, very grainy
with pronounced film defects
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Getting officials hot under the collar over
their frisky public frolics
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WTO, an organization both lauded
and vilified with equal intensity by various groups with concerns about trade policy
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The EU maintained its intransigent
position with regard to agricultural trade
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A common fault
line exits across many issue
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To trick them into
thinking
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Argentina and Brazil dwarf Paraguay and Uruguay
in economic size
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Compound
the confusion
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Great result in school open
doors
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Life does not always unfold so
neatly. Studious, rule-following youngster do not necessarily come out ahead in the long run
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Kids swotting
for GCSEs
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The luxurious office accentuated the manager's position in the
pecking order
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He had been flogged and
branded on the foreheads
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Critically injured racehorses are humanely
euthanized by lethal injection
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Spend the bulk of waking
lives at work
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We are like moths to the
light when it comes to emotional energy
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Newly minted JDs seek
employment in banks
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Encounters are likely to fall
flat from the start and are difficult if not impossible to recoup
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Boring worker
bees
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Corporate drones
A
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Without rhyme or reason his mood
changed
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He is a shoo-in for
re-election
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Cuff
link
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They reported gravitating toward high-energy candidate because they felt their own stocks of energy were
depleted during the recruitment process
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You have been here for a while and are
jaded
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It really pumps you
up
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Such energy-boosting sparks of physical attraction could help explain why in such firms candidates paired with a
cross-sex rather than a same-sex often come out better in evaluation
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A halo effect that cast a
positive light on evaluation
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Interviewers tend to lower the technical bar for candidates with whom they had
great sparks
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He argued strongly for rejecting the candidate who was
then "dinged"
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I tried to find locations slightly off
the beaten track
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The Alan we saw was friendly and brimming with confidence. He positive vocabulary
bespoke positive thinking
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Alan sets himself no boundary and traverses
research, business, literary creation and publishing
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Xi has been known to burnish his populist
credentials at home during simple dumpling meals at communal tables in workers' restaurant
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Cutting it fine - sorry - here is the
first lesson material
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Why did you go to that lame school? Because they gave me a
full ride
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At odds of 16-1, and with White displaying splendid form throughout the first five days of action, it began to look like very
prescient gambling
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What are the betting
odds that a certain students is behind the leak
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It is best to accept that some inconveniences are part
and parcel of travel
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I took a straw
poll among my immediate colleagues
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With this in mind, I conducted a quick
straw poll
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His dreams are wrong-headed and he clutches at straws, missing the
salvation that is offered him
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When interventionists resort to that kind of argument, they are
grasping/ clutching/ catching at straws
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His impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give
little away
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He was reluctant to countenance the use
of force
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He was a really big
cheese in the business world
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The LPAT exercise has cast a sickly
pall over English generally
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The justification for the framing of Hong Kong English as rubbish English, however, appears
thin
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Grammarians bewail its
demise though
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Hong Kong police launch
appeal to find missing 10-year-old
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Cats with a finicky
appetite
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His actions defy
belief
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The outfit defied accurate
description
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He glowered at him, defying her to
mock him
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Why not? Accounts vary. Some say it_s because the authorities were on the train; some say that it was safer to jump off early than to try to
thread through the police at a station
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Her daughter was decked out in ghoulish
attire and make-up for Halloween festivities
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Swift ranked a distant
second
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The duo endured a frosty
relationship
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Shaken our society to its
core
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The sight of one of the Anfield legends back at Melwood will be sure to get thoughts
racing and tongues wagging
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It is a regressive
step
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Nostalgia has no place in the ultra-competitive Premier League, where the fine margins dictate that all decisions must be taken for the greater
good of the team, rather than with individuals in mind
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Behind the affability, Klopp is a
shrewd operator
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As jovial as he can be, he also possesses that ruthlessness that all great
coaches share
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Keeping up with the
Joneses
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These ex-workers are spilling beans on the worst items you can get from famous fast food restaurants
A
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Putting people in front of the boss can work
wonders
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Missed the tutorials without
leave
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May I please book an appointment for them to attend
before you
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Toothless sanctions will otherwise bring the attendance requirement into
disrepute
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I was thinking of matching them in front of the Professor for a stern
pep talk, if there is a second time, which three may well be
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The seven absentees are not
'running scared'
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No 'stick' at this stage; rather, an appeal to
their better nature
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The trio of poets will grace the recital with their
presence and poems
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The recital will be a rare
treat for language and literature lovers
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May 15 was pencilled
in as the date for the meeting
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Let's deck the HSMC campus with literary
gems ahead of the festive season
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When he said he was not going back to the former trade, which he regards as mere existence, he is articulating
the disjunction between dreams and reality
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Look wistfully at our
contemporaries who made it
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Spillover
effect
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Brady drifted past three defenders, nutmegging
the third with ease
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A game of
rondo
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There was a huge security presence but the overall
atmosphere, though massively partisan, was good-natured
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Responded with rounds of
jeering
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Chan donned a red shirt and a headscarf emblazoned
with "We are Hong Kong"
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On a very subdued
night
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The goalkeeper handed an opportunity to Harry Kane with a badly sliced
clearance, although his Tottenham club-mate's attempt to capitalise was similarly lacking in quality
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Kane's measured through-ball found Rooney, whose clever footwork took him beyond
the defender to lash narrowly wide
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You cannot waltz in here and bark
orders at me
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His eyebrows knitted in
confusion
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Staff were bussed in and
out of the factory
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I am not sure what value it adds to determining public, or for that
matter private, policy
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The teaching of this course strictly adheres for the principles of formal linguistics or formal language theory for that matter. A formal language is a set of
strings of symbols on which rules enforce
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Opting for no-frills
weddings
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He parents had demanded a "bride price" (like a dowry, except the groom pays, not the bride's family) of 18000 and would not
budge. I obliged
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Nuptials
planners
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Plan to get
hitched
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People are either putting off marriage or
forgoing it altogether
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People even hire extras to
bolster numbers
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Hongkongers bust out winter wear as
temperatures plunge
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Some make humble choices, while others don't mind splurging for an extravagant ride. This list includes a wide range of cars, from wildly expensive
sports vehicles to modest, everyday roadsters
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Others had on only singlets and cotton trousers as they
jumped into the water
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Withholding of
payment
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Drooping
eyelids
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This is not a rags-to-riches
story
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One of the other underlying pillars of this dream was the concept of Never Having to Work Again. Like somehow an eternity of leisure was going to provide the existential bliss I had been longing for all along. I thought about that a lot. I did all the math: Hey, if I stuff all the money in a prudent mix
of stock and bonds, I should be able to live a comfortable, if not extravagant, lifestyle until the end of my days without lifting another finger
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Expectations, not outcomes, govern the happiness of your
perceived reality
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Attitude determines your
altitude
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On a numbers of wards bathrooms were separated only by a small curtain it concertina
door from the main ward
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That will teach him to turn up
late for training
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High cheekbones, fuller lips, big eyes, and thin
chin are associated with sexiness in women
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How do you like
it
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Never crossed
my mind
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Going to Harvard cannot beat
this view
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Mind if I join the
fun
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Where do you pitch your
tent
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Grab a
hold
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He finally badgered her into
going
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Women remove their veils and
abayas in gym
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He sticks his hands out the window and flips
me the bird
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We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few bursts of speed and skidding
switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa
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I am not the sort of person who would freewheel
his way to the end of a contract
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He has been spared the
sack
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Autobiographers who want to tell about themselves, without giving the whole show away, have discovered there is more than
one way to approach it
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Paternal
aunt
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The bubbles of joy are easily
burst when the home is unhappy
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My mother soon noticed this tendency of mine to "give
the show away" by blushing
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One cross word from a teacher could make me choke with the hurt of it, though I always fought
back my tears
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Each school change brought the
agony of meeting new classmates
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Yet somehow I managed to come
out in the top six in the examination
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There was some latent strength and had not yet come into my
consciousness
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I dreaded the thought of leaving and
going to university
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A quiet pen-pushing
job in the civil service
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I dreaded the
thought of standing in front of a class of students who might be ill-behaved
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A poetry
squash
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The freshers
squash
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My college mother, as we called the senior students who were appointed to
advise freshmen
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Are we reflecting an attitude that turns the other cheek, an attitude that goes the extra
mile in the face of abuse
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My father marveled at
the change
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I avidly read the bible and tried to carry out
the teaching of Jesus
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Disillusionment came
slowly
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That made me ripe for the picking by
fundamentalists
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I received my first lessons on the chains with which fundamentalism binds
the believers
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He always appears at the bicycle
shed
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It was too gory for me, even
abhorrent
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God had to take responsibility then for a jilted
lover
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The shock of that nearly broke me, and it took years to recover from
the blow
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Missionary work was at the time out of
the question
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I became totally disillusioned, but did not want to ruin my marriage because I had no personal
disregard for my husband
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Again I was up against a brick wall. The church agreed, on condition we taught
only the bible
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To win converts
to our church
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I would have rather have died than
quarrel
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I should dress
warmly if I were you
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Black clothing flatters older men by disguising some more obvious
degradation of their once wonderful physique
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Black gloves, balaclava and full length sleeves and trouser legs complete
the ensemble
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This film's protagonists are cardboard
cut-outs
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He deliberately pruned away
details
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It does not sound great now, but
just you wait
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The are losing money hand
over fist
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Start yourself out on the right
foot
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The environmental mantra that energy has for too long
been too cheap
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Sneak off to a moonlit spot when you'd otherwise be watching something on a
glowing screen
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Sing along to cheesy pop music. Enjoy things that are out of style. Make silly
faces. Stop stifling your giggles
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Bill Gates mellows
out on weekends
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I fancy having a
crack at winning a fourth title
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You are a such a
spoilsport
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Media hysteria has followed in the wake of all new
developments in youth culture
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We are witnessing the information revolution that will change the media as we
know it
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The level of remuneration did not result in the collapse of the book trade as
we know it
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Due simply to
differences in
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Women president raises fewer
hackles
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Chart our roadmap to
university and beyond
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Will you therefore pleas
account to me by email for your absences by next week
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Failing that, I shall book a
meeting for you with
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Camera-ready
copy
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There are also those times when you have a sneaking suspicion someone_s
taking advantage of your helpfulness
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Three simple responses that_ll make those people think twice about dumping
their work onto your plate
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You might be really mad the first time someone asks you to take care of something, only to
turn around and spend the entire afternoon schmoozing with people in the kitchen
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I_d love to help, but I have to take care of X, Y, and Z first. If my schedule clears up this week,
I_ll definitely let you know how I can pitch in
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These tasks are way above your pay
grade
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I_d love to help, but since you have a lot of expertise, would you be willing to show me
the ropes
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While this task may be second nature to the person tossing it your way, it_s good to
remind him that it_s not to you
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The more you like each other, the less likely this person will try to pawn
off his work on you
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It_s a hypothetical
win-win
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That doesn_t mean you should be taken advantage of just because you_re so willing to go
above and beyond
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After all, you_re only being asked because it_s obvious you_re sharp. But once you_ve let your ego
bask in the glory, be an advocate for yourself and do what_s in your own best interest
