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As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.
Intel produces monitors for computers.
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Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.
Monday Night Football was absent in the groups' top 10.
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Technology to me has its good points and its bad points.
Modern technology is failing
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But just two weeks later, Charlton shared the distressing news that the couple's love life is being ruined by his penchant for antiques hunting on the He's apparently so caught up in his Net surfing that he forgets Jennifer's keeping his bed warm.
Charlton is a single man.
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But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
He proved W.H. Auden's dictum was wrong, for a time, about poetry making nothing happen.
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) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost.
Lafferty and Tinsley were in the same competition together.
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In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.
Inglis set up a transportation system through the state, making them build a toll road, killing federal money for transportation to achieve this.
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We wonder if they, too, would feel uncomfortable with our differences made so plainly apparent.
We are uninterested in how they feel
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Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth.
Dentists will never have the ability to install dentures that seem like real teeth.
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Pouring their hearts out to reporters is the only therapy Republican politicians can get.
Only one type of therapy is available to Republican politicians
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It sounds as if things are just fine as long as your correspondent doesn't have to visit her friend's house.
Things will be fine either way.
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In one massacre, an 11-year-old girl watched her father being marched off and later found his charred body.
An 11-year-old girl found her father's charred body.
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By sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a sensitive and tasteful show about a trashy subject, says Newsday 's Linda Winer, the production achieves only banality.
Linda Winer is affiliated with Newsday
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You know, everything has to be robust a robust foreign policy, a robust national defense, a robust air attack on Serbia, a robust police crackdown, a robust anti-drug policy, a robust investigation of abuses.
Anti-drug policy is hands off.
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1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.
The script is a biographical story about Winston Churchill's grandmother.
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And it's not that they don't know any.
They know a part of it.
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Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.
The Dayton accords put an end to the hostilities.
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Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.
Monet was open to painting anywhere, anytime.
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WordPerfect and Netscape work just fine on my Windows-based machine.
Windows-based PC's can run many programs similar to WordPerfect and Netscape.
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They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart.
They think outside the box.
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Nevertheless, if you're into printing out, it's worth investigating.
Printing out is independent of investigation.
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I was about to say that studies showed no connection.
I believe that the studies showed no connection.
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suic...
He had a tough life
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Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth.
gum bacteria is good for teeth.
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An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.
East Side Story was published in Mad Magazine
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The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.
The talking animals were horrific to look at.
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To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average.
By contacting the engraver prior to delivery, you can get the die plate made later with your design for about $56.
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In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways).
James Wood is a baby
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Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.
Mr. Burton is being evasive.
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They cite AFL-CIO officials who claim the organization spent $35 million on a radio-and-television ad campaign alone.
The unions spent no money on advertising.
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It is a beautiful, sad little movie about betrayal.
The movie is uplifting and lighthearted.
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Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.
There are investment strategies for new financial gurus to be aware of.
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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
One propaganda example originated in Nazi Germany
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Now they admit they were wrong.
They aren't going to apologize for making a mistake.
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Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true.
The president denied the results of the election.
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This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide?
basic skills now unimportant
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I stop by Kanter's Printers on 23 rd Street, an address generated by the Crane Web site.
The address came from somewhere on the World Wide Web
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But what it isn't is a rational way to run an industry.
Profits in the industry have declined recently
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As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.
People don't educate themselves on the computers they use.
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The Blue Flower , by Penelope Fitzgerald (Houghton Mifflin).
The Blue Flower is a collection of poems.
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But it won't do this because of some ancestral memory in the genes.
Genetic predisposition, which is noted here, won't allow it.
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A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit.
The rabbit is an important part of the article.
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The two men have been joined forever in an intimacy deeper and more complex than that of blood or sex.
The two men live unconnected lives.
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Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes.
If you want to know about the newest feature you might want to talk to Bill Barnes.
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If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.
The senator will lose his job.
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Possibly, Bakaly meant to give the impression that Starr has a good hand without formally stating anything, but more likely it was an unintentional snafu.
Bakaly is normally very good at what he does, he has a strong poker face, and he was meaning to imply that Starr's hand was unbeatable.
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That's not your demographic profile on the Net, observes consultant Rob Arena, of Presage Internet Consulting, who coordinated Bob Dole's Internet campaign in 1996.
Rob Arena is unfamiliar with Presage Internet Consulting
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But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.
Buying a margin only has beneficial value.
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Needless to say, one such entry would be unacceptable, and we've adopted strict safeguards to prevent any such problems.
Such problems never occurred in the past
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In criticizing the ability of the exclusionary rule to reverse a conviction, he The wrong done was the search, not the conviction.
The exclusionary rule was the sole consideration for deciding whether or not to reverse the conviction.
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The White House says there's no such system.
The system doesn't exist
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To heed the better angels of your nature, you must know the devils first.
To know the better side of yourself you must acknowledge the bad.
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He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian.
He does not share his views with others
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Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my singl...
Ross is God
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By time-shifting this feel-good scene forward, Man on the Moon relieves the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline.
Man on the Moon relived the true story of Kaufman's impressive recovery and growth.
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The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.
Exports and imports are not affected by changes in the value of currency.
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries starred Bruce Willis.
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According to those who know him, he has learned why newspapers are a public trust since his unfortunate cereal interview.
Since his cereal interview he knows why newspapers hold public trust.
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President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Two leaders assembled in America to discuss Palestine
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If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.
Suppressing the gold price would have caused inflation
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His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.
his goal is to win Congress back with just 12 new seats.
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A comprehensive international review of 54 studies concluded that the pill doesn't heighten a woman's long-term probability of getting breast cancer.
Studies concluded that the pill gave risk to breast cancer.
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How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.
The Democrat answer was better.
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The U.S. has never backed down.
The U.S. always backs down.
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The Heartbeats, a decent R&B cover band in cowboy hats.
Hats were worn by the R&B cover band.
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The next day's Los Angeles Times goes with the DLC Clinton's Centrist Big Draw Among Party Faithful.
The next day's Los Angeles Times contained an article about politics
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The natural paste, meanwhile, lacks all bite, and your mouth feels dirtier after you've brushed.
Natural paste should be used when brushing your teeth.
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That's what you do.
You are an abstraction that is incapable of any action
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You love it up here, don't you?
Being up high is kind of scary.
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This is the amount on the check the new owner writes.
The new owner wrote a check.
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It's a picture of a needy young woman, one whom any older man with something to lose--or half a brain--would have the sense to avoid.
An intelligent man would avoid the young woman
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During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs.
The hawks in this context refers to people who are in favor of perpetual war.
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The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk were alive for the Sumitomo affair.
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How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice?
Sun Ra was powerful.
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Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.
There is an editor at Vanity Fair who suggested I do a piece
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As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.
The more time passes, the more we remember catastrophes.
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He has made his pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply argument in sealed court papers and also has publicly denied believing anything so foolish, Brill points out.
There will come a day when the sealed court papers will be unsealed.
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New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.
Ticket sales for the play remained steady after John Simon's review.
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In the black black-black offspring.
The offspring is black.
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It was simply to say the industry is prepared to make revolutionary changes in its behavior if it gets some protection from these giant suits, and this is a good deal for the public.
Changes are expected from the industry in the next year.
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Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.
Economic theory predicts executions prevent murders.
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If you missed the link to the refresher on harassment law and its history, click .
The refresher covered the history of labor rights
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All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.
He is a conservative politician.
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Work is work, whether it is done inside the home or outside the home, Hutchison argues.
Hutchinson believes that housewives who work at home are as important as work that people do other places.
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Maybe even Al Gore will soon exalt with a broad smile the vibrant U.S. ecology.
The US ecology is in a bad state and a disappointment to Al Gore himself.
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In the black black-black offspring.
The offspring was white.
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I don't suppose that everyone is like that.
I refuse to assume everyone is that way
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Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.
Diem is no longer alive
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While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.
He hates taking photos of himself.
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In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
They are learning to hide their limitations
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Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous.
The marketing and branding was very expensive.
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There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
The difference in hourly wages in Taiwan and the U.S. grew larger between 1975 and 1995.
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It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.
Advancements in electronic media may bring about a respect for better handwriting.
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Sani Abacha died , reportedly of a heart attack.
Sani Abacha had a bad heart.
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Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?
Is it enough for Wisconsin to have $25 million more?
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Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.
Before she became the Vogue cover model she was bigger britched and fans liked her better.
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In last week's episode, Apu, the Indian convenience store owner, goes down to the docks to donate porno magazines to sailors.
Apu has a large amount of dirty magazines at his store.
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Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch.
The pitch was stopped before it was given.
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He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.
He had great success in his fight against big tobacco.
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They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise.
Oprah hosted the cruise that the makeup artist went on.
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