Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earplugs would be a fine alternative were it not for the severe health risks involved. After my mother told me about the boy who mistook his earplug for a giant raisin in the middle of the night and choked to death, I have diligently avoided all earplugs. And raisins...
...majority. The Old Guard, Gingrich said, "tends to say, 'Oh, gee, ((the Democrats)) are in charge. How can we be nice enough to them that they'll let us pretend we're part of the game?' " In contrast, he declared, "I represent the wing of the party that says, 'Fine, we'll take up that challenge.' " Michel, who slipped and referred to Gingrich as "Nit" during a press conference, seemed resigned to the Young Turks' triumph. "There's such a frustration on our side at being mired down in the minority," said Michel...
...scam, but he has plenty of company. In the shadow of the fast-growing telemarketing industry, which sold more than $100 billion in legitimate products and services over the phone last year, telephone swindlers are springing up like mushrooms. Telescam artists are bamboozling consumers with pitches about everything from fine art and exotic vacations to time-share condos and precious-metals ventures...
...latter-day art boom was fostered by Roman Catholic missionaries. Among them were Brother Marc-Stanislas Wallenda from Belgium, who founded Kinshasa's Academy of Fine Arts in 1943, and Father Kevin Carroll of Ireland, who in the same era came to work among Nigerian craftsmen. Most white missionary bishops back then, Carroll recalls, "thought we were wasting time." Political independence and the increase of black clergy accelerated the process that European Christians call adaptation or inculturation, meaning the incorporation of local culture into Christianity. Today Nigeria has Africa's largest corps of artists and artisans, and Zaire probably boasts...
...Chinese (or Jewish or Presbyterian) mother broods when an adult offspring says, "I'm my own person!" Her response is, "How can she be her own person? When did I give her up?" The author writes with both inside and outside knowing, and her novel rings clearly, like a fine porcelain bowl...