Word: donee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those chances remain at slim to none, and to mangle the old aphorism, Slim?s out back holding a fund-raiser. With McConnell the one in charge of doling out the Senate GOP?s soft money, Republicans aren?t too keen on bucking him. Still, McCain and Feingold have done their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They?ve shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft-money ban, up or down ? an approach that has apparently won one convert, Sam Brownback...
...allies, who have long been concerned that the President has a habit of doing the same thing. "This was badly mishandled on both sides of Washington," says Calabresi. "The Republicans scheduled a vote and then tried but failed to find a way out. But the administration clearly hadn?t done nearly enough work to muster support for the treaty." Adds TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "It?s too bad that the President offered his most spirited defense of the treaty only after it had been defeated. If he?d done that earlier it might have helped sway some votes...
...angst is an inheritable trait, passed on from one generation of the urbanite species to the next. Unlike their forefather-oppressors, however, the post-yuppies had no outlet for their angst. They couldn't claim a cultural disaffectedness of their own, as Seinfeld and thirtysomething had been there and done that, and made it clear that fin-de-sicle unhappiness on TV was for their generation only; TV twentysomethings were left to stake new claim in another territory, the frothy world of Friends. That's where Kevin Smith stepped in. Taking a cue from Whit Stillman's so-so trilogy...
...those of us who fall outside monogamy. Public visibility is a small, initial step toward avowing these privately popular but publicly denied behaviors. One person's "sensationalism" is often another's way of desiring and living. It's not worth coming out into a world where all we've done is switch the genitals and left whom and how we can love unchanged...
...person would no more leave their New York City apartment unlocked at night; why should living in Boston be any different? Beyond closing and locking all of the Yard gates at a certain time (a highly undesirable, confining act) or hiring more security guards, not much else can be done to improve safety...