Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daydreamer dreams of miracles, dreams that the impossible will somehow turn out not to be impossible. The Man of La Mancha is one of his heroes; so are Walter Mitty and the would-be outfielder in Damn Yankees. In more religious times, mysterious alterations of the usual suggested divine intervention, or at least the help of a saint, but both church leaders and philosophers tend to be skeptical about these things. Proofs are demanded, testimonies weighed. Still, the streets of Lourdes are lined with stores selling rows and rows of bottled water from the grotto, and the grotto itself bristles...
...host of female warriors against an evil horde. Will she share in her brother's omnipotence? Not exactly. Producer Lou Scheimer explains that She-Ra is more caring than He-Man. "We tried to endow her with powers of nature rather than strength," he explains. "But she can do damn near anything that...
...part of Union Carbide. But more appealing is the doctrine of strict liability, under which negligence need not be proved. Said Belli: "It doesn't matter that you didn't intend to bring harm. What matters is that it happened. In this Bhopal case we can damn well prove that it happened." His plan: "We'll have videotape of all those poor bastards who are sick and dying. We will have a brochure on every single person who was killed...
...that do occur in those mishaps are almost always confined to employees who were on-site at the time. "There are a lot of accidents in which two dozen miners are killed," says a spokesman for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Washington. "But fortunately, there have been damn few in which great numbers of civilians have been involved...
...live with the results besides yourself. For undergraduates, and particularly for freshmen, selection can be hazardous indeed but is made somwhat easier by the publication of the University CUE Guide. This year the Committee on Undergraduate Education that funds the Guide should avoid making changes that will damn it into statistically suffocating platitudes in the name of objectivity...