Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unclear, and as a result, instead of being anxious to do everything to ensure the safety of this girl, all of us were preoccupied to a greater or lesser degree with our possible liabilities. In the absence of any certain knowledge, the extent of possible punishment, in our minds, went beyond dismissal from Harvard to possible legal action...
...contribute to the school shooting phenomenon, it's an insufficient explanation. "Japanese kids are raised on a diet of enormous violence in everything from TV cartoons to video games, and yet a school shooting is almost unthinkable there," says Hillenbrand. "Curbs on access to weapons -- even knives -- limit the extent to which Japanese teenagers can take out their aggression on others...
...Wachowskis, whose first directorial effort was the seductive femme-noir drama Bound, have deeper fish to fry. "We're interested in mythology, theology and, to a certain extent, higher-level mathematics," says Larry. "All are ways human beings try to answer bigger questions, as well as The Big Question. If you're going to do epic stories, you should concern yourself with those issues. People might not understand all the allusions in the movie, but they understand the important ideas. We wanted to make people think, engage their minds...
While the early doomsday predictions about Y2K appear to be wildly exaggerated, serious work remains to be done. "It was only one chemical valve being left open that caused the Bhopal disaster," says Joan Mulhern, legislative counsel for Public Citizen. "To the extent that these bills are telling industry not to be prepared, they're sending the wrong message...
...century, Hemingway's public persona expanded as well, and threatened even to overshadow the writing: Hemingway the brave idealist, the avid fisherman, the boxer. The mythic man impinged on the literary production all the more so because his poise and his life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself and all others, a code of scrupulous honesty, precision, self-control, courage, skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also...