Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican rhetoric that accompanies it, much of the Contract is a cleverly packaged attempt to return to the policies of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. The Republican electoral strategy, as well as the issues and themes that the party continues to stress, also represents an intensified attempt to appeal to the racism, xenophobia and prejudice that has continued to divide America...
...think the Square is dictated by the economy; there is too much fast food, fast clothing, [and] I would like it to be a little...quieter," Duehay says. "There are too many new, trendy stores and it is hard for people in Cambridge to find shops and restaurants that appeal to them...
...spectacle of men getting dressed up as divas and belting out Verdi in falsetto may seem a specialized taste. But the appeal of La Gran Scena goes well beyond that of your usual drag show. As they are currently demonstrating on their seven-city U.S. tour (this week: Sun Desert, California), these divas can convulse mainstream audiences; and they are not only consummate clowns, but they can really sing...
...only one who found the circumstance of his execution implausible, if not illegal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling," he wrote. Stevens said that if the prosecutor's arguments at the trial of Jacobs' sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even...
This time, however, the strategy backfired. Despite the costs imposed by fighting the defense fund, developers persevered until a court struck down the zoning appeal and awarded them the right to build...