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...decorations and doodads. Don't get me started on outfits for pets or the move to extend the holiday into an event that runs for a whole season so that it becomes - you'll love this--"Falloween." Only Christmas gets consumers dipping into their pocketbooks with such happy abandon. Stretch Halloween over the whole of October, and it may soon race into first place in the waste-your-money-on-trash stakes...
...abandon ideals for pragmatism, it’s out of a very real, very intense fear. A fear that my vote for a candidate other than Clark could help re-elect perhaps the most provocative, dangerous man ever to run this country. A fear that, by 2008, America will have rejected dozens of other international treaties and mandates, invaded Iran and North Korea, and alienated itself from its allies and the rest of the world. Most of all, a fear that America will suffer serious, perhaps even nuclear, attacks—a fear that I might die before...
But—and this is where the new baseball caps come in—we ought not to abandon blindly-held beliefs for other, more fashionable, blindly-held beliefs. In “Corn-Pone Opinions,” a short piece in Europe and Elsewhere, Mark Twain writes that there is “hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies...
...about the round-robin at the top,” she added, referring to Brown, Princeton, and Radcliffe. “We stayed focused and rowed with the precision and attack that we had trained with all season long. Once we won Sprints, we headed to Nationals with reckless abandon...
...budget for all libraries falling under FAS was $64.5 million in fiscal year 2002, according to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby’s 2001-2002 Letter to the Faculty. Nevertheless, in too many cases, HCL seems to spend with reckless abandon...