Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main theme--how a man must deal with being singled out for life amidst death, glory amidst gore. Jackson is intelligent and decently raised, his inner conflict, that of a just man in a wretchedly amoral situation, eventually leads him to madness. The irony of President Johnson rewarding gross carnage is compounded by Jackson's fear that to return his medal would make him just another unemployed Black American. For him, the medal of honor, in one sense a key to opportunity, only locks him into a personal hell of self-loathing...
...down the freeway through the rain like two wild birds,' I said. 'But, like, I am afraid of the rain, darling,' she said. 'Sometimes I see myself all grody in it. And sometimes I see you grody in it. It's so gross. To the max.' She was crying, it was no good. 'Ciao,' I said. But it was like saying goodbye to a statue, or a preppie. After a while I left her standing in front of Le Juice Bar, and walked down to the 7-11 in the rain." Lynda...
...massive scale of death and destruction" is cited as evidence of the violation of the supposed "norm of proportionality" in the use of force. Yet it must be noted that many of the initial, unsubstantiated casualty figures have been discredited as being gross exaggerations of the actual total by the Palestinian Red Crescent, headed by Yasser Arafat's brother...
...argument has a nice "free market" ring to it, and, in view of the impressive conservation gains of the past decade, seems to have some merit. Efficiency of industrial energy use, measured by real Gross National Product produced per unit of energy consumed, has jumped nearly 40 percent since 1974. Home insulation, smaller cars, and other conservation measures have cut consumer energy use dramatically; overall, America's energy consumption has declined by 0.5 percent per year since...
...these gains have cost us dearly in economic hardship. A market that takes ten years of slow economic collapse to reduce demand in response to a rise in prices cannot be called "free." It would be callous and foolish for us to ignore the gross imperfections in the oil market, and make the US government play OPEC just to make us less vulnerable to the real OPEC...