Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hatred that lobbyists, politicians and AALARM feel toward our community and other communities at risk has prevented them from investing in our lives," Oppenheimer said. "Their hatred has blocked initiatives to create decent AIDS prevention programs...
THERE'S NOTHING MORE DEPRESSING than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt," Norman Mailer once remarked. We have, Mailer thought, a deep, profoundly sentimental need to believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness disguises nothing but more toughness--may be the more accurate take on reality. But it's also an intolerable one, especially in the movies, the basic business of which is to redeem us, for a couple of hours now and then, from our darker suspicions about human nature...
While the message appears decent, its bearers are anything but. Even granting that Farrakhan's Jew-hatred ought to be ignored in this instance, the leader of the Nation of Islam has proved himself uniquely capable at dividing the black community along just about every line possible. As it stands right now, black Baptist churches across America are boycotting the event, along with such mainstream organizations as the NAACP...
...This year's budget looks, thanks to the effort of a lot of people, like a reasonable chance that we're going to come through in decent shape," he said...
...rearview mirror, my hands start to shake, my legs shiver, and cold sweat runs down my neck. And this happens when I'm fully aware that I have committed no crime. I know there are some good, and even a few outstanding, officers out there. However, decent cops are paying a price for their colleagues' abuses. Sadly enough, they are feeling the way hundreds of innocent citizens have felt when framed or unjustly accused of crimes they didn't commit. ALEJANDRO ARREOLA Los Angeles...