Word: hanged
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This, no doubt, is indicative of a rather unique sense of moral responsibility to which we can only hang our heads in shame. Yet to be fair, Loury is in some respects morally indistinguishable from his liberal counterparts, since they too presuppose the moral validity of corporate capitalism. Differences where they do exist, are generally more on matters of technique and management. As a rule, elite academics can be bought cheaply. Loury is a minor footnote in this tradition. He is therefore a symptom of our malaise. And for that reason we must look elsewhere for examples of moral integrity...
...license commissioner, insisted that the influential owner of the Wursthaus be allowed to serve liquor seven days a week. "The placing of tables and flowers at that location has significantly improved the area in regard to unfavorables," Paolillo said. If Paolillo was referring to the punks that hang out in the Square, he should tell us where he thinks they have gone...
Saturday in Catamount country, a lack of defensive experience on Harvard's end allowed the hosts to jump to an early advantage and hang on for the three-goal victory...
...holding the anchors in place, and in the top deck there is a gaping hole that was once a skylight. Through it, Ballard told his viewers, "you can see right down the grand staircase." The railings and wooden deck are intact, the individual planks clearly visible. The davits still hang empty over the side, their lifeboats, which saved only 700 of the ship's 2,200 passengers, long gone...
These changes have also rendered the traditional campaign tome largely obsolete. With tempestuous demographic and geographic upheavals in progress--i.e. Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, the fundamentalist Right, the Sun Belt majority--campaigns today are roughly analogous to surfing. Catch your demographic wave and hang on for the ride. The story of the Hart campaign was not how he won the New Hampshire primary, but how he failed to take advantage of the electoral groundswell in his favor. The story of Alan Cranston's failure was not his ridiculous one-note (later two-note) campaign, but the utter lack...