Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trapped in a narcisstic solipsism, of which inner monologue is the essential expression. "The best writing today has the effect of removing history from the realm of moral judgments...
...terms of the poor, the comparisons look even worse. "We are not giving basic medical care to people in the inner cities," says Tom Preston, chief of cardiology at the Pacific Medical Center in Seattle. A liver transplant of the kind that little Amie Garrison needs would finance a year's operation by a San Francisco inner-city clinic that provides 30,000 office visits in that time. Says Harmon Smith, a professor of moral theology at Duke: "I don't understand the fascination with these absurd, bizarre experiments when we have babies born every...
...Heritage study concluded that the United Nations' law of the sea treaty ran against U.S. interests, the President canceled U.S. plans to approve the pact, which has been signed by more than 125 nations. When Foundation Scholar Stuart Butler adapted a British notion in a proposal for inner-city enterprise zones, both Reagan and Conservative Congressman Jack Kemp enthusiastically backed the idea. The Administration also accepted Heritage recommendations favoring the accelerated leasing of federal lands for energy development. Altogether, of some 1,300 specific proposals urged on the President early in his first term by Heritage, Feulner claims that...
...depositors seldom experience any of those indignities. For them, banking has become more convenient and financially rewarding than ever before. At the Manufacturers Hanover headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in New York City, customers with a net worth of more than $ 1 million carry out their transactions in an inner sanctum with dark paneled walls and deep-green carpeting. At least two officers familiar with the individual's finances are on hand so that the customer can borrow $500,000 for, say, a vacation home with little more difficulty than a regular depositor might have in cashing a check...
...very proud of what he is, what he does, and what he wants to do. He doesn't want the squalor of the back room bars; he wants a neat apartment near a park, a nice place where he can build his family. Adler quite successfully reveals Arnold's inner strength, a resolve developed through years of taunts, ridicule, and disapproval, and shows it to us with a candor and sincerity which is both disarming and comfortably appealing...