Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belongs to all English speakers, Heaney's writing also belongs to all English-speakers. Heaney's cultural reclamation has done more than recycle the same problem of exclusive ownership. Foregrounding the Irish perspective in English literature was not an aggressive repossession, but an invitation for others to try to crack the monopoly. Thankfully, Heaney keeps from falling into the same old trap: His cultural reclamation stakes out land for more than just one ethnic group, marking it off emphatically as a public space...
...years ago, the Massachusetts legislature passed a welfare reform bill designed to tighten requirements and stop people from taking advantage of the system. In particular, the bill's supporters sought to crack down on the common welfare stereotype: the lazy mother who sits at home and watches the soaps, relying on welfare--on taxpayer dollars!--to support her for life...
...vocal, but it's a minority." That doesn't mean that Netanyahu has reversed his own ideological opposition to trading land for peace. Says Beyer, "Netanyahu can live with this deal because he knows he can get out of it by saying the Palestinians aren't doing enough to crack down on Hamas." Indeed, no one will be more surprised than Arafat if, 12 weeks from now, Israeli troops withdraw as scheduled...
...have sat down and written it in old-style folklore form entitled "The Devil and William Gates," in which ol' Billy swindles Lucifer himself by reporting his credit card and car stolen, and changing the Devil's fingerprints to match those of a San Diego crack-addicted prostitute. (Well, it's funny in the book...
...interview "was extremely tough, almost comical," says Timothy R. Lipsky, now an HBS second-year. "[He was] grilling me to see if I would crack...