Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardship and compared it to so-called "aboriginal privilege." But once Hanson became One Nation, running candidates in both the House of Representatives and Senate, things began to go awry. Her policy proposals became more and more incredible, until her positive economic program was to institute a 2 percent flat income tax (tax not tax cut). The bubble burst even amongst her supporters...
...Legs shouldn't dangle. They need to be at right angles with the feet, which are planted firmly on the floor. If necessary, a box or some other flat object can be used...
...Iowa, where it counts, Forbes has pandered much more heavily to the Christian Coalition than has Bush, who thought a talk about Jesus on the beach with the Rev. Billy Graham would be enough. Forbes diluted his flat-tax message to appeal to religious activists by promising "a new birth of freedom"; that's his way of telling true believers they should be free to post the Ten Commandments in public schools and have only antiabortion judges appointed to the Supreme Court...
...Carried by its long fold-out handle, the iBook could be a sleek, flat fourth-grader's lunch-box. It is a laptop with a sense of humor--almost ridiculous in its rejection of more serious stereotypes of computer. Designed to live in someone's backpack, it can be handled with relative impunity. Colored like a pre-school toy, it can be considered with a modicum of flippancy and easy camaraderie...
...hard being but a few hours drive from the Capital of the Twentieth Century. In the art world, where New York's hegemony is especially overwhelming, the resulting insecurity leads to Boston's misguided attempts to imitate or to compare itself to New York. Such attempts inevitably fall flat. This is unfortunate, because these gestures are intended as expressions of the Boston art community's justified optimism and pride: they just come out all wrong. In the photograph A Great Day in Boston, there are 810 beaming Boston visual artists. Behind all those goofy banners on Harrison Ave., there...