Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is humanitarian? The improvement in the baby's abstract status is bought at the price of increasing the mother's exploitation...
...budget problem, because more and more candidates are talking about restraining entitlement growth. And I said, "Maybe in a very small way, but, unfortunately, that's what the candidates say -- 'entitlement growth.' " When they speak at the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis, very few of them translate those abstract words into "freezing Social Security" or "restricting Medicare eligibility." In Congress we don't get to vote on the abstraction. We have to vote for or against actual programs...
...BOTTOM LINE: A star turn and smart action sequences enliven an otherwise abstract film...
Overall, there is something abstract and distant about Patriot Games. But there are at least four exciting preliminary confrontations between the good folks and the bad ones, and a stormy-night conclusion in which all of the above are somewhat laboriously maneuvered into a large, dark house, a device that may be conventional but is nonetheless well managed. Along with the expert binding of Ford's performance, these are the juicy raisins -- Shall we say the raisons d'etre? -- in an otherwise blandish pudding...
Part of the reason for the University's declinein influence is the growth of other sources ofpolitical clout. As public opinion polls play anincreasingly powerful role in shaping policy, themore abstract political prognostication ofacademia is forced to take a back seat...