Word: certain
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...feel that certain aspects of the Unix environment...allow for a lot of private information to be seen by other users," Barber said...
...nearly doubles when the financial obligations of its many affiliates are thrown in. "We don't want to spend our hard-earned money buying someone else's hard-earned debt," said Ford co-chairman Jacques Nasser not long before he bought Volvo last month. Some top Ford executives were certain last fall that Nissan was worth a serious look, and they went so far as to invite Hanawa to Dearborn. But even before the Japanese executive got there, enough intelligence had come back from Japan that the bloom was way off Nissan. In any case, Nasser never...
...kind of self-dare, I decided to immerse myself in the male-weepie canon, even though this meant viewing certain films I had been avoiding for decades, like Brian's Song, Bang the Drum Slowly and The Great Santini. I also read Death of a Salesman and sought out a recording of the old Harry Chapin song Cat's in the Cradle. Certain themes obviously undergird these works: dying fathers, dying athletes, dead fathers, dead athletes. These are romances, to be sure, but instead of the overblown, tear-jerking gestures of male-female romances, the car crashes and death caves...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals Show is not for everyone. Indeed, before attending the latest installment of the 151-year-old tradition last Friday, I was quite certain HPT (as it's known...
...clearly discern the wordsbeing sung, which, even if a person doesn'tunderstand a word of Italian is vital to the fullenjoyment of the opera and perhaps even moreimportant in that scenario. Although an equalquality of clarity in comparison to CD studioversions cannot be justly expected, it was shownthat certain voices were more fully comprehendiblethan others. Unfortunately, the lead roles ofButterfly (Paula Delligatti) and Pinkerton (LuisLima) were more adept at singing passages drivenby emotive tendencies than they were at filling inall those passages of recitative (sung speech ordialogue). Recitative was a significant portion ofthe Act I where the single action...