Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still, many of those "mobilizing" in Washington were not too convinced about the actual diversity of the crowd. "I feel like more of a visible minority here than I do on a daily basis--and that's pretty bad considering I go to school at a place where I am a distinct minority," said one woman from New York...
Scientists have yet to uncover the actual mechanisms by which life processes regulate earth's climate and atmosphere. Lovelock maintains that this makes it all the more imperative that man halt the mass extinctions threatened by the destruction of tropical forests, because he does not know what creatures are essential to his own survival. At the American Geophysical Union conference on Gaia, Lovelock argued that diversity makes earth both stable and habitable: "You cannot have a sparse planet any more than you can have half an animal...
...last year, both Duehay and Wolf voted against the sale of property rights on the site of the Harvard Motor House, correctly arguing that the city had almost no idea of the actual worth of the property. Unlike the majority of the City Council, they did not simply place their trust in the developer's promise that the deal was a fair one. Two more years of a little healthy suspicion would serve the council well...
...crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that punishment should be tailored to such factors as the circumstances of a crime and the culpability of the individual defendant...
...second half of the film deals with the actual filming and alternates clips of Do The Right Thing with interviews of cast members, highlighting their attitudes about their characters' message and the messages of the film. This fascinating array of opinion is concluded best by Spike Lee's statement, "We just tried to go out for the truth without being concerned whether it was positive or negative...