Word: decentering
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...cold or arid regions is almost as silly as trying to grow kelp. Americans have belawned 25 million to 30 million acres, an area larger than Virginia. Lawn is our connection to the English manor houses to which most of us cannot trace our ancestors; it is the decent, respectably dull necktie we knot around our houses...
...campaign against Medicare as socialism. Now an editorial in the A.M.A. Journal bizarrely blames the absence of universal coverage on "long-standing, systematic, institutionalized racial discrimination." Yet the A.M.A.'s reform plan is strangely reticent about cost control, without which fewer people, not more, will have access to decent health care...
...only decent male the pair encounter is Hal (Harvey Keitel), the detective leading the chase. Mostly they come across a lunatic variety of hunks and lunks. When the men are not sexually objectifying or exploiting the ladies, they are ripping them off. A convenience-store bandit absconds with their getaway money, but not before teaching Thelma the tricks of his trade. "I feel I've got a knack for this," she muses after knocking over her first grocery store...
...there many opportunities for common ground? Probably not. One of the problems with the new paradigm is that it presumes Americans all want the same things. In a general sense this is true: all people, for example, want a decent wage, a comfortable and safe place to live and better opportunities for their children. But the differences about the means of achieving this dream are so fundamental that the means, in essence, become the ends...
...took the 'Radcliffe Twenty' at the 1000-meter mark, but nothing happened," junior Rachel Greene said. "We picked up a few seats but they came right back and gained a few seats on us. We were expecting Syracuse to be decent, but we didn't realize it would be such a tight race...