Word: deems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much needed health-care legislation." Others agree with Huguet Pameijer of Simsbury, Connecticut, who thinks "the current bash fest" stems from the perception that the First Lady is "too accomplished, too powerful, too darn inexcusably uppity." But some 50 readers have harsh words for Hillary. While the milder critics deem her a "political liability," at least one person suggests aggressive action, asking, "Is there any way to impeach Hillary...
...fulfill a basic requirement for steady government funding: a tally of the infected. Until recently, deaf activists who were asked for casualty figures would simply cite the number of panels dedicated to the deaf dead in the huge Names Project Memorial quilt, an undercounting any hearing AIDS group would deem ridiculous. Serious assays now start at 300; estimates of HIV-positive deaf run from 7,000 to as high as 26,000. But the deaf world's varied demographics and idiosyncratic lines of communication conspire against precision. "We have tried to collect our own statistics," laments Kennedy. "We have tried...
Where Liu strays is his assertion that Clipper is out first step down the road to totalitarianism. He seems to believe that any of the government agencies with access to the "keys" to Clipper could arbitrarily "scan through any piece of data they deem necessary," perhaps "in the name of national security." His first error is in believing that this situation is new and unique to the Internet. Evidently, Mr. Liu is unfamiliar with the concept of a phone...
...ended on the recurring theme of note-taking difficulties. This class, in particular, requires many precisely-positioned and accurate geometrical structures drawn in, what many students deem as necessary the vast colors of the visible spectrum. The reason still eludes me, since I had tired it for a short time earlier in the year and saw no benefit; on the contrary, I found myself distracted and mesmerized by the aesthetics, rather than the content, of my notes...
...address a few of the reforms that have been suggested. First, some students are outraged at U.C. funding for activities they deem frivolous or unworthy in some way. On this page last week, an editorialist decried the U.C.'s funding of the group AFARM (Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism) because, in his words, AFARM is "a highly politicized group...