Word: decentering
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...pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent householders glare, knowing you couldn't own the thing unless you were a drug dealer or a peculating corpocrat. The Miata is relatively cheap, if one of your relatives is a rich uncle. Its base price is under $14,000, though optional doodads push the price to $15,000 or more...
...know, Jesse. She looked pretty decent...
...what end? To entertain, of course, but to do more than that. By junking the cages and building vast biological gardens, the zoos provide a decent, delightful place for animals and people to meet and, with luck, fall in love. Once that bond is made, the visitors discover there is a larger mission at hand, a crusade to join. Between the birth of Christ and the Pilgrims' landing, perhaps several species a year became extinct. By the 1990s the extinction rate may reach several species an hour, around the clock. American zoos are leading the battle to stop that clock...
...second be blown away") is exactly wrong. It is precisely because soldiers live inches from death that they should be "extra careful about what we do." The ending, in which Eriksson is awakened from his nightmare and, in effect, offered absolution by his trainmate, seems to propose that decent Americans may, at last, enjoy sleep untroubled by the naggings of historical conscience. It is, at least in popular-cultural terms, novel...
...does is unacceptable and useless. Those are contradictory statements, but we have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude. There is an obvious element of humiliation in the fact that we are not able to provide jobs for our own people. The only way many Mexicans can find a decent job is to go to the U.S. On the other hand, it's a fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers to give Mexican workers a job, and a lot of Mexican immigrants do jobs that Americans would...