Word: dices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bottoms powerfully conveys this depressing drama of a vulnerable man in a cold, modern city. His inflections and movements all speak of a person in desperate need of companionship. Rolling his dice, tapping his shoe against the floor, rocking in his baggy pants and chain smoking, Erie narrates his entire life...
...weeks later, Shultz's voice crackled with emotion as he defended the Administration's refusal to encourage negotiations in El Salvador between the government and the guerrillas. "Let them shoot their way into Relations government?" he exploded at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. "No dice!" The next time he was on Capitol Hill, Shultz put the Roman Catholic Church virtually in league with the Soviets over El Salvador. Asked about the problems of Soviet Jews, Shultz seemed to take the question out of context, declaring, "It is a subject we bring up every time we meet with somebody from...
...traditional philosophers--from Spinoza, Hobbes and Hume to Kant, Schopenhauer, and J.S. Mill--because it lends itself, through inaccuracy, to randomness and unpredictability. In this way, he buttresses quantum theory, which incorporates randomness as a principle. Einstein had often attacked this with his famous "God does not play dice with the Universe...
...dump in Minnesota. But a U.S. appeals court eventually ruled in favor of the professor, holding that the name Monopoly had become generic and that a trademark is lost when it "primarily denotes a product, not the product's producer." Parker Brothers tried a final roll of the dice in the Supreme Court, but last week the Justices declined to review the appeals-court decision. Anspach-and anyone else-may use the Monopoly name, though Parker Brothers retains the rights to the game itself...
...them shoot their way into the -government? No dice!" That was the crisp response of Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he traded views with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the nettlesome issue of El Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas...