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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
Rockefeller was not subject to demands from the Left.
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In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment.
The possibility of Sinatra having ties to the Mob was a form of entertainment.
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we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990.
The reason the recliner is so expensive is because of high demand.
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You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm.
You will have to invoke everyone else's gods.
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The main reason the media have greeted Jack Kemp so rapturously isn't his ideas, his optimism, or his compassion.
In fact, it is Jack Kemp's pessimism and ruthless nature that have the media in a frenzy.
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Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
Some pop artists become more famous posthumously.
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But as Felix Frankfurter wrote in dissent, this distinction is silly.
Felix Frankfurter disagreed with other people's opinions on this case.
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A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.
The Fed is unable to comment on the issue.
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Cheap oral hydration, for example, has been studied and used to treat dehydration for diarrheal illness in developing countries.
Developing countries do not have problems with illnesses.
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Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities.
Money from Slate helps universities.
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Government-mandated integration is wrong, he writes, because any endorsement of racial preferences is immoral.
He maintains it is morally wrong to allow for government-sponsored benefits of different races.
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They're interested in the clash of personalities.
Everyone is getting along perfectly.
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I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true.
The truth is hard to accept.
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Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.
The author likes the host's humor.
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To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy.
Privacy risks on the internet are a big issue today.
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Pol Pot is in captivity
Pol Pot's captors are clear on their demands.
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In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.
if I understand the rules, this foundation is flat broke in every sense of the word.
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No, it's something more amorphous, like, Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated?
Who do you want to tell you the very good news?
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Submitting a decision to the U.S.
The US can't receive submissions.
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I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also.
Brave New World helped inspire science-fiction horror.
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Shots of cute animals are deemed an inadequate substitute for the cutting wit that made the earlier film (by the same cast, and also written by John Cleese) a cult hit.
The sequel didn't do as well as the original in the box office.
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In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.
The product cost millions of dollars to make.
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The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity.
We offer certain protections to our anonymous sources.
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I felt like a moron for not being able to figure this out myself.
Everyone else had assumed they figured it out because it was so easy.
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Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.
She knows the culture is odd.
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Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.
Contestants enjoy defending their theses.
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Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright.
Tom DeLay is from Texas.
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Igave a lecture on the American economy in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month.
The author has never left the United States.
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
He does that elsewhere as well as here.
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Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.
Some people are in favor of taking money from the wealthy and reallocating it to poorer people.
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The industry now plans to strengthen warnings that children should be kept, appropriately harnessed, in the back seat, where they will be neither helped nor harmed by air bags.
The car industry is going to intensify warnings for children's proper security within their seats.
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But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part.
I have caused suffering for those around me.
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But the Post made a telling omission here.
the Post obviously left something out.
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and that's when you get hit by the meteorite.
The meteorite is expected to enter Earth's atmosphere sometime tomorrow.
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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
The scripts are laden with propaganda.
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Jesse Ventura to obstruct Pat Buchanan's run for the Reform Party nomination.
Jesse Ventura is running for the Democratic Party.
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If the job were held by someone other than Tripp, would it pay any less or involve any more work?
They wonder if a job's qualities would be different if it were held by someone besides Tripp.
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, the closure of a local factory), the benefits tend to be invisible because they're faraway or diffuse (e.g.
The factory closure is a positive.
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(The of supranational NGO lobbying in general is analyzed by Jessica Mathews in the January/February Foreign Affairs .) Thus the old left, intentionally or not, is pushing us from national regulation to supranational regulation--albeit, in this case, a kind of private-sector supranational regulation.
Jessica Mathews is transgendered.
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Nickles advocated a compromise, and Lott expressed interest in Yugoslavia's proposal for a lightly armed U.N. peacekeeping force in Kosovo rather than a fully equipped NATO force.
Nickles wants a comproise while Lott is preparing for military mobilization.
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Sheppard, Time ). Skeptics renew old attacks on sociobiology's all-encompassing view of human nature.
Sociobiology is a rigorous scientific discipline that has a lot of funding.
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We're having debates.
The debates are getting contentious.
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This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Vic Fazio was considered one of the savvier Democratic politicians at one time.
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I think our country deserves a president who, when he makes a mistake, is willing to acknowledge it and willing to learn from it, because I believe that the presidency is not an academic exercise.
It is best for a president to never admit a mistake.
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In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.
The Black Power movement ended in the 1970's.
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In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference.
The big loans had strict pay back schedules and penalties for missing payments.
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He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.
It is impossible to have friends in more than one location in a country at a time.
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Last year, advertisers spent $2 billion on the Internet, compared with $35 billion spent on broadcast TV and $10 billion spent on cable.
Last year advertisers spent more on broadcast TV than cable and internet combined.
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That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change.
Theories can change often.
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From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.
It is very difficult to retain 100% accuracy when reporting in the media.
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Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.
The parties have not raised any money.
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If you go, don't forget to buy the illuminating book by its curator, Valerie Steele.
the book I told you about is on sale.
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It's dark.
There is no light currently.
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The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning?
Kristol's views stem from the fact he has been to the area, and sees the need for troops.
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America rescued him from minor cult status and gave him to the world (at a not-insignificant profit).
He still has cult status.
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It will be pointed out again and again that Bradley is just as awkward a campaigner as Gore.
Bradley is a republican.
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Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com.
Morris has many supporters.
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Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.
The bookstore he walked into was Barns&Noble.
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But for the past month, and especially last week, there has been a kinder, gentler Monica, an innocent trapped in a scandal not of her own making.
Monica isn't to blame for what happened, but she was still upset.
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This from a former chief clerk for a U.S.
The chief clerk never worked in the U.S.
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The Falcons, who have stunk perennially, are football's best Cinderella story in years.
The Falcons are a football team.
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.
McDonald's does not pay their employees well.
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Another refreshing feature of Goodman's storytelling is that, unlike other members of fundamentalist sects one might find in novels, her characters don't chafe at their restrictions, or not too much.
Goodman is a great storyteller.
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In Gigot's mind, he is the most successful loser in political history--his failed presidential run defined a conservative agenda that was eventually elected in the person of Ronald Reagan.
Gigot's presidential run ultimately culminated in the election of Ronald Regan.
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After the return to Colgate Gel--because of its positive characteristics when used with the Sonicare cordless brush--my mouth was just about back to normal.
The Colgate Gel worked well with the Sonicare brush.
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The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served.
Woodward was absolved of all counts.
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Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant!
The pope has only ever been to Catholic mass.
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The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal?
Mom abandoned you at birth, she really hasn't been there for you at all.
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Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.
none of the sellers profits deteriorated.
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Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.
the military is overall homophobic.
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If I write a new diagnosis in a patient's chart, I have to indicate what I plan to do about it.
You need to indicate your plan for a new diagnosis.
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In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.
Lane's voice for Timon was not similar to the one he used in The Birdcage.
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Nevertheless, if you're into printing out, it's worth investigating.
The pen is good for writing.
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There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.
Rubin often slipped up when he spoke.
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In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of nature, but in nature as human nature affects it, industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur.
He interpreted the poem as only normal nature by itself.
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Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!
my wife doesn't deal with me getting reprimanded very well.
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The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.
Yale has a big chess club.
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And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting.
I usually eat my breakfast of bagel and mango in the presence of my wife who I don't get along with very well.
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What will I impugn, if not motives?
I will have an argument for the motives in this situation.
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On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica.
Ford's Theatre is very real.
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Of course the information-technology sector has been wonderfully successful--but that is because it has been in a position to exploit the extraordinary possibilities offered by photolithography, not because of any special virtue in the way it operates.
The information-technology sector has failed to realize the possibilities of photolithography.
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Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Neukom added, We've always competed fairly, and we will continue to do that.
Neukom gave a statement during a scheduled interview.
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Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?
Seedless grapes and navel oranges cannot reproduce naturally.
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And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
The labor-market will eventually shift back to wanting trained and educated workers.
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In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder.
The children are working on their math homework.
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The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends.
Solondz's Happiness can still be seen in some indie theatres.
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The National Basketball Association fined Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman $50,000 for insulting Mormons.
Dennis Rodman won multiple championships with the Bulls.
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But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
Lao-tzu currently lives in China.
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
Gas guzzling car owners are willing to pay a premium to keep their tanks full.
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I spent 10 years in commercial aviation with two U.S. flag carriers and offer the following comments based on that experience.
The author has significant and considerable subject matter expertise in regards to aviation.
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Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.
Thurmond Thomas had no idea what he did in the past was as wrong as it is today.
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A Saving Private Ryan backlash begins.
The negative response to Saving Private Ryan will tarnish the director's reputation.
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The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal?
The speaker thinks that mom should get something for Mother's Day.
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
The Enquirer did not provide details on the story.
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The company could have monitored distribution better but didn't because it wanted to keep its hands clean, Hass has said.
Distribution has been a major problem for the company.
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Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last.
The Diaries of Dawn Powell will not be saved for last.
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Investors can decide not only that Microsoft owes its success to the abuse of monopoly power, and not only that the courts will strip the company of this ability, but that Microsoft doesn't know any other way to survive.
Microsoft is at risk of being acted upon by the courts for their practices.
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But then I don't know whether you mean that the attraction is physical or that the consummated relationship is physical and sexual.
I know exactly what you mean.
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USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.
There are multiple regular graphs.
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oh, I'm sorry--are we out of time?
There was a time limit.
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