Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would they run over budget again? "The bottom line was that no one could tell Cheney how much money it would take to finish the development program," explained a defense official. "They couldn't say that $1.4 billion would be enough. And he wasn't going to write any blank checks...
With debate under way at last in both houses, the question becomes just what kind of action Congress should take. One unlikely prospect is that it could offer the President a blank check to pursue his current policies. To that end, the White House began preparing a draft resolution for Congress that would urge "continued action" by the President to fulfill U.N. mandates calling for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait...
...ultimately--as is the case with most I'm-more-scholarly-than-you dialogues--we began discussing books. I told my co-worker the author I admire most is James Baldwin because he wrote my favorite book of all time Another Country. My comment was met with a blank stare. This person had no knowledge of who Baldwin...
...kept creeping into his work. After moving to New York City in 1968, he came to public attention with a proposal to paint a series of haunting silhouettes of demolished landmarks on building walls near the historic structures' former sites. In his first actual mural, on an all-but-blank side wall of a cast-iron structure, he painted windows and trim that uncannily duplicated the building's street front. The painting has since become as much of a landmark as its surroundings...
...generation of human beings within this urban area who could be so productive and helpful to humanity but are being lost," says Sweeny. "We have kids 13 and 14 years old who are as hardened as anyone in a penitentiary. Look into their eyes, and you see these cold blank stares, void of most moral values. The drug trade has shown them that in a little time they can make a lot of money, and they've accepted the violence that goes with...