Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasized everyone's societal obligation to correct the nation's past wrongs. "None of us is islands unto ourselves. We are part of a society," he said. "We cannot pretend that history never happened...
...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...
...Piercy's occasional eloquence and skillful dialogue cannot compensate for Summer People's basic flaw: the lack of an interesting plot. The novel is engrossing enough for a beachside read, but in comparison to Piercy's earlier works, like Small Changes and Braided Lives, it disappoints. Those novels painted likeable, complex charcters, but Summer People offers only shadows of real people, moving in patterns too familiar to be truly interesting...
...China absolutely cannot accept this," said the statement, which was read on a state...
...abortion will also put many Republican politicians in the sort of bind Democrats have been in more often in recent years: trapped between the demands of a vocal interest group at the core of their party and the preferences of the moderate voters whose support they need. They cannot abandon the human-life amendment without hell to pay. Now that it matters, they cannot continue to trumpet this extreme position without at least heck to pay. It will be an albatross around their necks. Already it is a pleasure to watch Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican candidate for mayor...