Word: earshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worth noting that all this creative energy--people re-engineering their careers, towns rebuilding their Main Streets, churches rethinking their missions--occurs well out of earshot of the nation's capital. Rarely does a town council think that Washington will provide any protection from or solution for its problems, a feeling confirmed by the spectacle of politicians bickering over flood relief and subpoena power. Even if they could get federal or state aid, Americans are wary of the baggage that would inevitably come with it. If you can't help us, goes the message to government, at least stay...
...makes light of the discrepancies and Reiches Rauch. "My phone rings. 'Hello. Is this Robert Reich?'" he writes of a call from a "reporter in heat" who later snaps, "Where I come from, there are such things as journalistic ethics." A colleague of Rauch's who was within earshot swears there was no snapping and not a word about ethics. And Reich was returning Rauch's call, so no phone rang...
...season. And the conversation will continue until you feel guilty about your productivity quotient or until he gets a call on the two-way. Dan knows everyone on sight, inside and outside the house. He comes early, stays late, and unlocks the door for you before you're within earshot of his Bostonian voice. Truly as asset to the Universty...
Attendees became bolder as the afternoon progressed, with some daring to smoke within earshot of law enforcement officers. But the day remained peaceful with no open conflicts between officers and rally-goers...
Every person lined up on that highway within earshot--little children who had just been crying, their harassed parents, young teenagers, drunks swigging wine from brown paper bags--they all began to sing with...