Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...esoteric subjects during the election campaign, Zhirinovsky held regular Saturday- afternoon street-corner rallies drawing crowds that numbered in the thousands. For every constituency, he designed a tailor-made message. The military received pledges of a resurrected and expanded Russian Empire. Fixed- income pensioners and students were promised a decent standard of living. Crime-weary citizens were assured that gang leaders would be executed. Meanwhile, foreigners were offered up as scapegoats, and Jews were blamed for provoking anti-Semitism...
Mann said he was in the process of finding anew music group "that would both be a decent drawand would come here for a price we could afford...
...work of an amazing musician. The set comes with a well-written 72-page booklet that features about twenty-pages of quotes (lots of predictable stuff such as, "I don't know what he's playing, but I know it's not jazz...") and a couple of decent essays...
...took a while for Spielberg to realize he needed the 6-ft. 4-in. Irishman as his Schindler. He knew Neeson as the vengeful Darkman, as a man accused of child molesting in The Good Mother, as the one decent fellow in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives. Spielberg had even tested the actor for Schindler. Then in January the director saw Neeson play the passionate, saintly seaman in a Broadway revival of Anna Christie. And that's when he made the top of Spielberg's list. The director told himself, "I want that great actor in this movie...
...precondition for returning to the world of energy, mental concentration and varied feelings. Some very loose analogies can be found with thyroid medication for those who need it, insulin for diabetics and in fact adequate nutrition for everyone: intake of any chemicals and nutrients to sustain a decent life is not the final goal but the means to be fully capable of pursuing other goods...