Word: deservedness
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On an equally significant level, the issue was not simply how much should be spent but how it should be spent. Some 34 weapons systems were initially killed, mainly by the House, but the conferees ended up restoring twelve of the major ones. Those that failed to regain funding were...
The matter might have rested there but did not, in part because the White House refused to answer other questions on the subject. Who was the dermatologist? Why had there been no advance announcement of the operation, however minor? Why was no test for cancer performed on the removed skin...
For 33 years it was difficult to decide whether the man they called the Georgia Peach belonged on the base paths or with the sociopaths. Yet there is no one who more clearly deserved a place in the Hall of Fame, and he was the first player voted in at...
With a thud heard round the movie world, Michael Cimino went straight from Oscar winner (The Deer Hunter) to studio wrecker (Heaven's Gate). Neither honor was deserved. Indeed, Heaven's Gate was the better film, with a certain suicidal grandeur about it, like a herd of buffalo stampeding toward...
No doubt about it, David Threshie once deserved your pity. When Threshie became publisher of the Orange County Register in 1979, he inherited a crotchety, shabbily written newspaper content to doze in the shadow of its bigcity neighbor, the Los Angeles Times. Its news columns were infected with the libertarian...