Word: holing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans in Europe are too often like Alices tumbling down the rabbit hole and encountering the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire cat and a deck of living cards. To them, Europeans live in a magical land that warrants a glance--perhaps even a visit--but not serious study...
...pigeon-hole and limit the challenges ofwelfare recipients into three square boxes labeled"child care," "health care" and "domesticviolence" would be a grave mistake. But the BayState is optimistic about helping people one byone...
Fact is, it ain't too clean, it ain't too pretty, and it certainly doesn't have anything in surplus except holes. The biggest hole is in Social Security. That's what the Government has essentially been borrowing from to balance the budget. To create economic surplus, we are collectively trading on our future...
Even if a jury finds that Jones suffered adverse job consequences, "she's got a big hole in her case," says Bernabei. "She still has not shown any connection between what happened to her [on the job] and Clinton." Nowhere in the record do any people in Jones' office say they knew of her encounter with Clinton or did anything to her because Clinton or an agent of his told them to. Jones' lawyers concede as much in the filing, which concludes only that "a jury could reasonably draw the inference that Mr. Clinton caused Plaintiff to suffer adverse employment...
Meanwhile, Waller, as the bumbling psychiatristwho is the creator of the mess, is at his bestwhen he is pushed to the edge of frustration anddespair. It is wonderful to watch his anguishedlooks of confusion suddenly take coherence as hecomes up with another cockamamie scheme to dighimself out of the hole he is unwittinglyenlarging. Smith's innocent, if somewhatslow-witted naivete plays well against thebackground of madmen into which she is unwittinglydropped. And Carmichael all but exudesgood-nature; his portrayal of the delightfullycorrupt bellboy is such that would charm the pantsoff any man... err...woman...