Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that its been almost 20 years since you studied political philosophy as an undergraduate. But I can't believe that you have forgotten the basic principle--as put forth by Mill and his contemporaries--that the unshackled expression of ideas is essential to the survival of a free society...
...Cambridge is in a little bit better shape this year than almost all other cities and towns in Massachusetts because it is currently taxing below its levy limit [as regulated by Proposition 2 1/2]," Maloney said. "It's our hope not to tax more, but that cannot be decided...
...group that perpetuates this stereotype most, the media, is also the group most likely to deny its existence. When asked about their tendency to call white players smarter and Black players better athletes, several prominent broadcasters, almost all of them white, point to specific cases where the stereotype is true--cases where the Black is the better natural athlete--and insist that they are color-blind when they call the games...
...still blue, but the land had caught the shadow, and the sea looked almost dark. Dark shadows blackened the water, and the lights of the harbor were lit and shimmered on the surface of the sea like oil. All the substance began to run from the colors; finally, only the black of the shadows and the white of the lights remained...
...author, it seems, has made the same mistakes of her central character--she has detached the novel from any kind of explicit emotion so much that the drama is buried, and the reader feels her character is almost irrelevant...