Word: centrals
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...gravity and economic rationality. Growth prospects have dramatically lessened in Europe, sweeping away any hope of a significant reduction in the still unacceptably high levels of unemployment. This has the potential to heighten tensions between the imperatives of economic national policies and the policy criteria set by the European central bank. Such tensions will put to the test the stability of the Continent's new currency, the euro, earlier than expected...
...impeachment of Andrew Johnson, even though it failed, left a wounded presidency. Congress became, in the words of a promising young political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, "the central and predominant power of the system": Woodrow Wilson went on to call his influential 1885 book Congressional Government. Presidential leadership languished in the more than 30 years between Lincoln's assassination in 1865 and the (accidental) accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the White House in 1901. These years of a diminished presidency led James Bryce to write the famous chapter in The American Commonwealth (1888) titled "Why Great...
...accident (e.g engineered or semi-engineered, whether Ryan's Bonnie or Anna Paquin's waif), which help point us toward the films philosophical crises and away from the emotional ravages. We don't have to excuse or condone the behavior of Eddie and the other rats to appreciate the central struggle Penn's character embodies...
Voltaire's central theme in Candide is that the simple life is best and that one must cultivate one's own garden. The Dunster House Opera remained true to Voltaire's dictate, with an uncomplicated set made up of a backdrop representing the blue sky and two poles upon which various objects were hung as an indication of place. (For example, when Candide journeyed through Eldorado, the city of infinite riches, golden streamers were hung from the poles.) The actors used large wooden blocks as chairs, ships, tables and basically anything else that had to be constructed for the musical...
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