Word: abounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their more informal nature allows the opposing parties to break through stumbling blocks like pride and anger and get through to the underlying problem, which oftentimes has little or nothing to do with the original grievance. The majority of cases, explains Skoler, are between acquaintances. Landlord-tenant cases abound, followed by longterm customer service cases and family or neighbor squabbles. Another common case involves the "I bought it; it broke" syndrome, though with a thousand variations on a theme...
...development effort under Nehru and Mrs. Gandhi has achieved high growth rates while aggravating income inequality and entirely abandoning hopes of relieving India's poverty. Also, the infatuation of the elite Indian classes with America has drained India of its most significant human resources, as Indian scientists and engineers abound in Western research laboratories and hospitals...
...often, weak writing rules. Impossibilities abound, such as a scene where a wind-blown hat lures a girl to her doom, but somehow remains stationary overnight to provide a telltale clue. Blood Beach also tries to spoof know-it-all scientists and tight-fisted politicians, but is too lazy to drive its point home...
...reflects the change. The actors speak with microphones (although not all the time), a synthesizer drones in the background, voices come from hidden speakers, echo effects abound--all part of an objectified high-tech nightmare. There's a huge screen in the background, used for the projection of close ups of Lulu's face (her lips, her eyes, all very eerie at 20 feet tall), and in more ingenious ways as well: as a huge contact sheet when Carbone is taking his pictures of Lulu; for a photo-montage providing a dimension of memory to a sex scene between Lulu...
...bureaucrats covered by Civil Service rules cannot exceed the salary for political appointees in Executive Level Five. Thus absurdities abound. The Joint Chiefs of Staff earn $50,112, precisely what the Deputy Joint Chiefs of Staff make and, as it happens, the same as the head of the Oklahoma City air logistics center. Such imbalances ought to increase pressure on Congress to vote raises some time this year, especially when no one is up for reelection. Even so, the freeze is not likely to be lifted, and for the same old shortsighted reason: it looks bad for Congress to increase...