Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happens next in The Accused is one of the longest, most harrowing rape scenes in Hollywood history, in which Sarah is spread-eagled on a Slam Dunk pinball machine and assaulted by three men. What happens throughout this good, fair film is the raising of many important questions about forcible sex. In the feminist age, can a woman display her sensuality as freely, even ( carelessly, as she does her intellect and ambition? If she does so, is she responsible for the prefeminist urges she triggers in men? Or is she just getting what she asked for, in a body...
...stick it to IBM, they can afford it!") is not always the smart thing (taking money from IBM for Congress to spend presumes Congress can spend it more effectively than IBM). What's needed is tax hikes that, first, would actually raise more revenue, and, second, are so fair and just and sensible they virtually scream to be introduced...
...full benefit to tax? Exposing both halves of the Social Security benefit to taxation for retirees with income over $25,000 (just as we tax 100% of unemployment-insurance benefits and 100% of almost any other kind of income) is rough. But under the circumstances, it's sensible and fair. To a retiree earning $25,000 or $50,000 or $100,000 from investments, the extra tax would sting, but it wouldn't bite. And it too would raise about $5 billion in new revenue. Congressman Claude Pepper and the mighty American Association of Retired Persons should resist the urge...
...fair question--one that a variety of fans would...
...most decent, fair person I think I have ever met," said Professor of Law Richard H. Fallon, who clerked under Powell...