Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painfully watched the calendar approach today's oft-dreaded holiday, I've been thinking that someone from up above is trying to send us a message with the endless spurts of snow: Get your mind off the ridiculous red of romance--and back to the white of family and friendship...
...Time Indefinite," the name of Ross McElwee's latest documentary film, was taken from the words of a Jehovah's witness who came knocking at his parents' door in Charlotte, North Carolina several summers ago. In religious language, the term connotes an endless time spent on Earth to those who are not "saved"; but the phrase also describes the "indefinite' nature of documentary film making itself. Without script or multiple shots the documentary format relies on editing the shots into some cohesive story. This style uses a "catch as catch can" method to obtain material. To compound this difficulty, McElwee...
...California recession shrunk tax revenues and led to astronomical deficits in the state budget. Normally fractious politicians in Sacramento, embarrassed by the perennial budget debacles that have plagued the state and apprehensive about the seemingly-endless recession, have joined to make California more business-friendly. Last year, the state legislature passed comprehensive pro-business workers' compensation reform and began to loosen the noose of bureaucratic and environmental regulations that have for so long driven businesses out of the state...
...council that had weathered a seemingly endless string of scandals, Gabayseemed like a gamble when the council elected himlast fall...
...President's rising approval rating is partly the reflected glow from an increasingly rosy economy. After what felt like an endless recession, Americans are gingerly re-examining the almost forgotten notion of good times ahead. Fifty-two percent of those in the TIME/CNN poll say things are going well in the U.S., up impressively from only 39% last October. Even if many Americans don't give all the credit to Clinton -- 47% say he's doing a good job of handling the economy, while 42% say no -- a rising tide, as the economists say, lifts all boats. The ship...