Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kishlansky also addressed the actual mechanics of his writing...
...people who were successful is that they came out with pride," said Friskopp, a senior manager at a high-tech communications company in San Diego. "The fear of coming out far exceeded the actual consequences...
These objections run contrary to the idea of music embodied by Beethoven and endanger the future of the music itself. Beethoven saw his music as forging a common emotional bond among listeners of all classes--the spreading of the ideas was more important than the actual listening. Pop classical might not convey composers' ideas in the most traditional form, but it does the job nonetheless. If someone enjoys a movement of a Vivaldi concerto on a pop classical disc, perhaps they'll want to buy a complete or "better" recording, and then perhaps they'll listen to Vivaldi's contemporaries...
...promoting reform is, to put it charitably, mixed. One example: while the U.N. generates a mountain of policy statements and proclamations about women's rights, its own record as an equal-opportunity employer is poor. By this year women were supposed to hold 25% of executive jobs, but the actual figure will be only about 16.6%. The reason, says Ciceil Gross, former president of the Group on Equal Rights for Women at the U.N., is that "there is no will to change things. Boutros-Ghali's stand on women is excellent, but mouthing the right thing when you can make...
...could I have known it would be so easy for me to be propositioned online for sex? Well, not real sex, which to my old-fashioned way of thinking still involves tangible saliva and sweat, possibly leavened with some actual affection. I'd heard about those kinky Internet newsgroups with names like alt.sex.bondage. I'd read about the use of online services to transmit pornography, including illegal kiddie porn. But no one had warned me that I might log onto AOL for the innocent purpose of, say, perusing the online encyclopedia and wander off for a minute, only...