Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killer--was a fake. Groden sounded impressive enough until Peter Gelblum, an attorney for the Goldman family, attacked him as a Kennedy-assassination groupie who held no formal training, credential or qualifications as a photo expert. Lawyers for both sides argued over his resume, trying to fathom his actual occupation. (He has worked as camera repairman and phototechnician, among several activities.) Groden acknowledged on the stand that he has recently made a living selling Kennedy-assassination videos on the street in Dallas and that he sold Kennedy autopsy photos to the Globe tabloid...
...sickened during this year's U.S. presidential race at the campaign coverage in papers I normally respect, mostly the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, although other papers were just as bad. What sickened me was the overwhelming focus on the horse race as opposed to the actual issues...
...some reason, journalists seemed to feel that campaign events--new strategies, snide comments, political gaffs, polls--were more significant and important to the readership than a discussion of the actual issues and positions of the candidates. The ramifications for what people base their votes on are frightening...
...balanced budget requirement in the council constitution, once an allocation is made, the money allocated is considered spent until the actual receipts from the event are collected. After Harvard-Yale festivities and a recent allocation for the First-Year formal, the committee fund presently holds about $14,000 with which the council can plan the rest of the year (until receipts from the First-Year Formal are collected in early March.) This means that representatives' attempts to serve their constituents and plan events such as Sophomore or Junior class semi-formals, December holiday shuttle buses, a comedy concert/contest...
...favor of the referendum. He said there was evidence of vote fraud that "constitutes a clear and glaring violation of the constitution and referendum law, crudely flouts human rights and makes the referendum results illegal." But across town, members said they had the necessary quorum to declare themselves the actual, working parliament, and seemed determined to follow their new ally. "Those people in that other building are just a group of deputies sitting around talking," said one of them, former Communist lawmaker Ivan Pashkevich. "The parliament can work wherever it wants." Parliament had united in recent months in opposing Lukashenko...