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related?

2008-07-23T20:12:48Z

I suspect these two words are VERY related, although the relationship is not clear from the etymological explanations given here: jealous c.1225, from O.Fr. gelos (12c., Fr. jaloux), from L.L. zelosus, from zelus "zeal," from Gk. zelos, sometim...

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whither managers

2008-07-23T19:08:57Z

A valid and important question concerns the state of the art in the science of management in America. There have been high and low points in the progress of management from country club to science. We are part of the way there. The overall arc o...

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so far borrowed

2008-07-22T17:10:28Z

There have been many things that started out but did not end up nights praying for what was wrong and years preparing for a past some babies were waited for but never greeted with pink or blue waves that swelled up and exhaled before br...

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it is a sign

2008-07-20T21:31:53Z

Took a train up a foothill took my eye off her leg the whole continent got flooded it's a sign even it it's not it's a sign to me. Went to sleep and woke half way you know where the map read like Shakespeare dear it is a sign sign of the mome...

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new and blue

2008-07-16T18:10:51Z

Getting up and walking around the world every day is strenuous like rope climbing all arms and grip no legs and thinking about it makes you slip you are not exhausted when you think you are about to get to where everyone else has feet on the grou...

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pen and posture

2008-07-16T18:09:02Z

Pen with sliced nib says much more discovered in the thins and thicks that pale line from a sixties magazine slipped a mickey into my rhetoric. Step on a stone this one a daughter jump to another this one a son the rocks across are getting bigg...

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sisters

2008-07-15T20:15:00Z

three of my daughters oil and water and a cocktail

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it's just hair

2008-07-15T20:05:58Z

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a lawyer with priorities

2008-07-15T20:02:35Z

While I was in Idaho Falls on the fourth of July, I walked past a law office and noticed that some lawyers may be worth talking to. I might go visit this one.

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melancholy coffee

2008-07-11T19:40:17Z

melancholy coffee muddy as my meandering stream of consciousness turning right left almost backward trying to get downstream. melancholy coffee and half baked coffee cake cool bare feet on grass wishing for more silky eager belonging. melanchol...

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