Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve into slicker life forms than we human beings were ever meant...
Strange though it may sound, Bush--as President--is really the archetypal American observer of disaster. We aren't totally heartless, yet our sense of adventure lets us forget that what we're cheering on is real. Hence our underlying complacency--as if the whole disaster thing were a replacement for the World Series, and our team had the chance to pull together and score the most runs ever in a single game...
Bruce Hurst is not a traitor for fleeing to San Diego. The Yankees are not heartless ingrates for dumping Willie Randolph. Just...
...heartless mother had banished all high cholesterol, high fat, high taste products from her refrigerator. In their place were interlopers like cottage cheese, lean cuisine meals, prunes and something called "eggbeaters." I suddenly realized that my parents had stopped worrying about me and were beginning to withdraw into their own special high blood pressure diets...
...just the sort of heartless harassment that has made the Internal Revenue Service one of the most resented arms of the Federal Government. A while ago, the IRS sent a computerized notice to journalism professor Alann Steen, telling him that if he did not cough up back taxes due on his 1984 return within 30 days, the tax collectors would take him to court. But there was a hitch. For the past 21 months, Steen has been one of the Americans held hostage by Islamic terrorists in Lebanon. As such, Steen, 49, seems to qualify for the unofficial IRS policy...