Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those in the U.S. bemused by the Koranic punishment [March 12] of the wicked (hand lopping for thievery, stoning to death for adultery)-almost never carried out-it is pertinent to recall a Judaeo-Christian injunction: "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey ... the men of the city shall stone him to death ..." (Deuteronomy...
...already urged a speedup in putting new nuclear power plants into operation by reducing the years it takes to pass through all of the regulatory challenges. While a case could still be made that bureaucratic indecision and delay ought to be minimized even tougher safety standards would almost inevitably be one result of the Pennsylvania breakdown. Wrote Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy in a letter to Energy Secretary James Schlesinger: "It s more important to build these plants safely than to build them quickly...
...report outlined the employment practices and other activities of almost 45 companies and said the committee "would find it difficult not to recommend that Harvard support a resolution for withdrawal directed to a company that has not disclosed the desired information...
...wind and cold, the Crimson agreed almost to a man that they had never played in worse conditions. Bob Horne, though, recalled one day almost...
Auletta writes in short, clear and unembellished, journalistic prose--a blessing in the long, complicated sections about city finance, but often tiresome in more analytic passages. Almost every paragraph begins with a short, declarative sentence, a basically sound idea, but one which suffers from great overuse. More careful editing and proofreading--the book is riddled with typos--would have helped enormously...