Word: domains
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Considering that his domain is a collection of play villages built on the order of cuckoo clocks, Mahre seems wondrously down to earth. His celebrity in Europe is such that, when the greatest skier in the world comes home to the U.S., he enjoys being ignored. "I don't think there are many Americans who understand what I've done," Mahre said. "That's unfortunate for skiing but nice for me. I'm not one for fame and fortune." He does not strike himself as being that phenomenal. "I grew up in the snow," he said...
Once, such crass, opportunistic nationalism was the domain of the Right, while liberals argued for free trade and rational recognition of the interdependence of world trade. But responsibly formulating solutions to our real economic problems doesn't win votes as easily as rattling sabers at nefarious foreigners. In the face of brawny, Republican militarism, Mondale and the other projectionist Democrats have had to scrounge up something equally macho to wave around. In embracing protectionism, they have cravenly abandoned the true principles of liberalism...
Also included in the hour-and 20-minute public hearing was a discussion of the feasibility of the city's taking of the University-owned Craigie Arms apartments by eminent domain and turning the deteriorating building into low-income housing...
Vellucci also suggested that faced with an eminent domain proceeding. Harvard might negotiate a more propitious arrangement will the city "If Harvard University wanted to be so generous as to offer the building, that would bring the cost down, wouldn...
...workings of the hardware down to the smallest transistor. These were quickly followed by books of software programs, like the popular BASIC Computer Games (Workman; $7.95), which provide page after page of prewritten computer codes that the reader can copy and run on his own machine. Now, as the domain of computer buyers expands, the bestsellers tend to be either step-by-step guides for new users, usually geared to specific machines, or introductory texts like McWilliams', which are intended for the computer illiterati who have not yet bought a machine. The author claims a special distinction...