Word: decentering
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...beginning, it might have been to force the Freedom Party out of government. Later on, it was simply to show open discontent with the Austrian voters' decision to support a man who came to a meeting of former members of Hitler's Waffen SS and praised them as "decent men of character...
...Gibson stars in another earth-shattering epic carnage movie from the director of Independence Day and-gasp!-Godzilla. So it could be good popcorn fun or well, just terrible. According to published reports, the first 40 minutes are wonderfully deep-so maybe we'll actually get some decent dialogue. (But I'm petrified that Gibson will give his "They'll never take our freedom" speech as "They'll never take our tea.") Heath Ledger (soooo silly in Ten Things I Hate About You) is said to give a rip-roaring performance as Gibson's son, but all eyes will...
Gardner closed his speech with a line from the Declaration of Independence, quoting Thomas Jefferson's belief in the necessity for a "decent respect for the opinion of mankind...
...assume you have two very decent, honest people and one of them has a million-dollar home and one of them has a million dollars in cash and they go into bankruptcy. The one with the million-dollar home keeps a million bucks and the one with the million dollars in cash gives all but a thousand dollars in cash to the trustee...
...Congress and the lending industry is, spend a moment with the people who have a street-level view of the system. Steven Friedman, a bankruptcy judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., describes the people who pass through his courtroom as "average citizens who have worked hard to obtain a decent standard of living and, through unfortunate circumstances such as medical problems or financial or job loss, are down on their luck." He adds, "The instances of abuse, where people who file bankruptcy are attempting to defraud their creditors or to be dishonest, are very...