Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around banging trash cans, things like that." Things like that include hurdling about the ice during a game like Roger Ramjet, trying to do anything and everything at once. "While other guys go crazy, I don't think I expend as much energy. I try to keep my head out there," says Watson...
Effective action to repair unsatisfactory situations is necessary; action stemming from frustration is not. I urge the United States to take no punitive action against the Soviet Union, but rather to expend its energies towards alleviating the crisis diplomatically...
...Reagan and his followers let the radical right ride piggy-back through the legislative battles of the next four years, Tsongas says the Republicans will be forced to expend political capital on social issues such as abortion and prayer in public schools, instead of on the economy...
...North Will Rise Again, is right. Maybe the entropy law does determine our fate contrary to our "Newtonian," or progress-oriented inclinations. In essence, the entropy law states that all energy flows inexorably from the orderly to the disorderly and from the usable to the unusable. Thus, when we expend energy under the guise of progress, we are in fact accelerating destructiveness. Presumably, Rifkin awoke early one morning and saw that this second law of thermodynamics could be applied to absolutely everything, and proceeded--with the assistance of disciple Ted Howard--to enshrine his thoughts in a reasonably priced hardcover...
...expressionism, Pop, minimalism-which cannot be assimilated properly because of the scarcity of information: one copy of a Western art magazine affects painters more, in this samizdat atmosphere, than do five museum shows in Manhattan. But the surprise is that such art exists at all. The dissident artist must expend so much energy on survival that he has less left for self-development. There is still no room for him in a society whose art has one purpose: to reinforce the narcissism of state power, under the guise of education. And the bitter moral dignity of his predicament cannot...