Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Verges plans to summon ghosts not only from World War II but also from France's war to keep Algeria, which ended in 1962. A blanket amnesty protects French officers accused of torture in Algeria...
...equation of conservatives with racists is a form of blanket stereotyping that is nearly as disgusting as racism itself. To label a person with a term as ugly as "racist" is a step that should not be taken lightly. Unfortunately, Boyd seems to have no qualms in doing so. I like to think that people form their political beliefs after careful thought about issues and policies that are important to them. Such choices should be respected. This respect for others' political beliefs lies at the very core of a functioning pluralistic political system. It is ludicrous to imply that every...
...members wake and drop down out of their bunks. It shudders three times for Joe Burns, prop master: when he sits up and bangs his forehead on the bottom of the overhead bunk, when he flops back again on his pillow and, finally, when he throws aside the packing blanket and rolls...
...order to reach out to other campuses across the United States, Chung hires campus coordinators "on-a-project basis." Rather than using passive media, such as blanket campus newspaper advertising, JCA targets specific groups on specific campuses and has the campus coordinators determine what would be a wise strategy for that school. He says: "We try to evaluate what our clients' advantages are and which groups on campus would be the most likely targets and how to target those groups...
...that were being traded have a soul-like sanctity in the sense that they belong to the mysteries of the species and are commonly shared. This is what the Vatican suggested when it recently condemned all artificial practices regarding birth, and one does not have to agree with that blanket condemnation to appreciate its basis. Whatever Stern and Whitehead thought their pact was about, they were trafficking in goods too elusive to package and too universal for personal property. What you do not own, you cannot sell...