Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aide called "too complicated for Kafka." To let the issue cool, House G.O.P. leaders have put off debate until the middle of June in the hopes that lobbying by the N.R.A. and the passage of time will make it easier to enact less stringent legislation. Speaker Dennis Hastert has expressed a willingness to tighten gun laws: increasing the purchase age from 18 to 21 and requiring background checks for all sales at gun shows. But Democrats fear majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay will work to declaw any final legislation. So Democrats have set their teeth, demanding action...
RANAN LURIE, Neue Zurcher Zeitung I would say Brezhnev. His face was like an ancient map of his character. It reflected so much of his personality and gave you several different ways to express the same features. If once in a blue moon he smiled, it was such a rarity that it was like a scoop. I was impressed with how his viciousness just spread into his face...
...letter sent via express mail to Mass. Hall yesterday, Berkowitz asked University President Neil L. Rudenstine to ensure the announcement of a decision by tomorrow...
Gore deserves credit for holding and pursuing his convictions, even if he can't always express what they are in a way people can understand. To critics whose ideas of national mission were shaped by the life-or-death struggle against communism, he makes the new age sound, well, New Age. "The Administration's humanitarian impulse is not well disciplined by a strong sense of national priorities," complains Harvey Sicherman, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank. That could leave Americans confused as to why we get into conflicts and what constitutes success. Gore pushed hard...
...advise that in lieu of public readings we might hold smaller lectures and student discussions. While these events are important, they serve a purpose different from that of the public readings. Our annual memorial service on the night preceding Holocaust Remembrance Day allows attendees to express their emotions in a warm, intimate setting. The name reading the following day is meant to bring together the entire campus community for eight hours of consciousness, emotional catharsis and solemn remembrance. The Holocaust name reading is one of few campus events for which students, faculty, administrators and community members join together with...