Word: cleared
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Indeed, a cat-and-mouse game has evolved between smoking teens and the special patrols (who cruise for smokers during overtime hours). "They 'make' the car," says an agent. "They see us coming and spread the word." Sometimes the agents double back when the kids think the coast is clear and catch them red-handed. Police cruised past a public park in Broward County one recent evening and spotted two boys swinging on a set of parallel bars. "Is that a cigarette that he's holding?" asked a sheriff's deputy. The officers approached the boys and confiscated half...
United Action. "...it was clear that the substance of talks was leaking immediately to the Iraqis." (New York Times, 11/18/98...
...helped push Wall Street and Main Street closer together. Yet for all their innovations, they remain at bottom Merrill's heirs. Their modern investing mantra is the same basic message he preached so many years ago-- that people should invest for the long haul; that they should have a clear understanding of the companies they are buying; that despite the hair-raising ups and downs, stocks have historically outperformed every other form of investment. Today the stock market no longer belongs to insiders. It belongs to all of us. We all now partake in its gains, just as we share...
...clear what Dawkins wants to do. It is unclear, however, why he chose romantic poetry to form the scaffolding for his argument. Dawkins is at his best when he deconstructs science, not poetry. Making the verses of Keats a central motif in the book weakens the rest of Dawkins' argument because it causes him to fall victim to fallacy. When he examines Keats' verses and claims that, in his exaltation of nature, Keats was doing the same as Newton, he is wrong. Keats was not doing the same as Newton. Certainly, in the abstract sense, they both sought truth...
...though, readers do get the hint that at least one character has transcended the egocentric world, even as the seeds of the next chapter in Atlanta's power games are being sown. After getting through all 742 pages, one other fact remains clear: Tom Wolfe has done it again. A Man in Full is a thrilling read and an insightful (if not entirely original) vignette from one of the master chroniclers of the human condition...