Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussing with some of my fellow Kirkland House residents how Loker Commons could fit those expectations and I think that some wonderful suggestions were brought up: For an activity center kind of feel to it, someone suggested a normal big screen television with decent tracking. If comfort is desired in addition, let's get some nice comfy couches to replace the wooden cafeteria chairs in that area...
...battle between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford is now seen as a model of civility, with two fundamentally decent men running fundamentally positive campaigns: Carter promising "a government as good...as the people," Ford coming from behind to near victory with a campaign featuring the jingle I'm Feeling Good About America. During that race, however, debate panelist Robert Maynard asked the candidates how much responsibility they were prepared to accept for the "low tone" of the campaign...
They soldier on, making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The harder working Americans work, the farther they fall behind. That is why it is so important to raise the minimum wage to a decent level...
...popular former State Senator, Stabenow poses a decent challenge to incumbent Dick Chrysler. She is a moderate, and emphasizes her work on behalf of business. As a Michigan legislator, she sponsored an amendment that scrapped the state's old property-tax system and led to a tax cut, and in the early 1990s she helped strengthen Michigan's drunk-driving laws...