Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Weston students are already beginning to wonder how their school will cling to its distinctive character if it becomes an appendage...
...commercialization of the holiday season, represented so clearly by the decorations in the store windows of the world, takes away from the season to be jolly to the extent that the holiday scarcely resembles the ideal to which some of us non-commercial sentimentalists still cling. On the sidewalks of this country, it wasn’t the Grinch who stole Christmas—it was consumerism...
It is very sad that people in this day and age of scientific discovery still cling to old superstitions. If we would accept that this is the only life we have and stop yearning for a nonexistent afterlife, maybe humanity would make the world of today a better place.WILLIAM MCWHINNEY Coral Springs...
...Accounting), Taha denounces the "murderers, oppressors, traitors, envious and rotten" who work to deny individuals their freedom in both the Western and Arab worlds. He delivers a similarly dual message in Lli Fat Mat (The Past Is the Past), urging listeners to embrace tradition for its richness rather than cling to it out of resentment or fear. "Turn the page. Forget the pain/ Be yourself, and make life a poem," Taha sings...
...this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy." Yet both candidates have shifted course on many major foreign policy issues, ultimately arriving at positions that resemble each other's more than either man likes to admit. But if both have shown a capacity to alter their policies, both cling to disparate world views. The problem is that neither man's philosophy on its own is entirely satisfying in the wake of Sept. 11. Fashioning a strategy that can keep the country safe while advancing U.S. values over the next four years will require either man to reconsider some...