Word: hitherto
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...long line of rules promulgated since Congress, in 1863, first made it illegal for officials to make decisions that might affect their own financial interests. The 1978 act puts real teeth into that idea, requiring a more detailed disclosure of assets and thus opening up a broad range of hitherto ignored potential conflicts. In addition, the new law makes it much harder for officials to dump their holdings into a blind trust. Under that arrangement, a trustee exercises control over the assets, theoretically shielding the officeholder from conflicts of interest. Yet these devices tended to be what former Senator...
...cannot assume facts merely because they have been observed-not, at any rate, if the word fact is to mean unassailable truth. Real scientists are quite aware that a new observation or body of reasoning may at any time force the revision of large parts of what had hitherto been regarded as well-established knowledge...
Tack on to that Dave Cody's extra point, and two Eli drives frustrated by a fired-up Crimson defense, hitherto considered lackluster. New Haven was wondering...
Tack on to that Dave Cody's extra point, and two Eli drives frustrated by a fired-up Crimson defense, hitherto considered lackluster. New Haven was wondering...
...clever, charming but extremely mannered performer who shines in musicals and farces, Shohet as a technically competent but brash actress whose specialty is destructive bitchiness. I looked forward to seeing them as Vanya and Sonya because both parts would demand a considerable stretch, a certain nakedness that neither has hitherto displayed. But instead of stretching to their parts, both have stretched the parts to accommodate themselves. Shohet has made Sonya, the most compassionate and heroic force in the play, a self-absorbed little bully, failing to realize that there is love in Sonya's reprimands or that her suffering goes...