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“He tries to make a buck on both sides. It’s not worth it in the long run, and he’ll pay the price for it.”
After poor sleep, the brain tries to compensate during wakefulness, triggering pulses of fluid that coincide with sharp reductions in attention, according to a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience.
Salieri gets up every morning and tries to destroy that which he loves most.
From Los Angeles Times
Then they get a good look at his shoes when he stomps on their tables, kicking cheeseburgers as he tries to make these regular folks engage with the tech-pocalypse he swears is coming.
From Los Angeles Times
Breuer has made this his rallying cry as he drives change in the armed forces and tries to jolt Germans from their post-Cold War, end-of-history reverie.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
