Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entrenching the rule of law and normalizing Iran?s relations with the international community. After all, he is a cleric and a veteran of the revolution, and is able to articulate his aims as consistent with its original goals. But his landslide victory was a repudiation of Khameini?s hard-line policies, and the conservatives immediately launched a counterattack, arresting key supporters on corruption charges, attacking liberal theologians and closing down reformist newspapers. More ominously, scores of liberal writers and intellectuals have been assassinated by shadowy groups, some of whom were traced back the Intelligence Ministry. The political infighting...
...snide comments and apparent dislike of Pignon, Bronchant still needs his "idiot" to help him out, whether by physically carrying him up the stairs or making phone calls. At one point, Bronchant reveals that the reason he only has expensive wines in his home is because he worked very hard his whole life so that he doesn't have to drink cheap wine. Therefore the audience sees through the upper-bourgeois crust that hides Bronchant's low upbringing just as Pignon's idiocy never obscures his human qualities...
...that is not the complete truth. For every story of apparent rudeness, I can match it with a story of kindness between strangers. Just the other day I was on the subway and a little girl started coughing hard. Instead of just ignoring her, my fellow passengers offered the child and her mother a seat, a supply of tissues and some water. None of this surprised any of us--this is an ordinary event in New York. People hold doors, give up their seats on public transportation for pregnant or elderly passengers and always help out in an emergency...
...that is not the complete truth. For every story of apparent rudeness, I can match it with a story of kindness between strangers. Just the other day I was on the subway and a little girl started coughing hard. Instead of just ignoring her, my fellow passengers offered the child and her mother a seat, a supply of tissues and some water. None of this surprised any of us--this is an ordinary event in New York. People hold doors, give up their seats on public transportation for pregnant or elderly passengers and always help out in an emergency...
...survey, 91% of people online are spammed at least once a week. Usually it's easier just to accept it, like bad weather or mosquitoes. But some people have chosen to make fighting spam their crusade, and this week they're launching a campaign against it, both on your hard drive, and in the courts...