Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that coming out in and of itself should be a political statement is to encourage a destructive reductionism of self. It is a group saying to a closeted individual, "Your thoughts and passions belong to us and our agenda, now, and we will represent them on posters as we interpret them...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Overwhelming creativity. Because of the large amounts of never-performed material in this show, the cast will have the chance to develop and interpret new material for the stage. Director Lane Shadgett said, "This evening will feature everything from jazzy to classical to modern, dissident opera. And our extremely talented cast will have the opportunity to work with and develop new literature...
Auditing firms verify findings, but they don't interpret them--that's left to the public and activist groups. But what's acceptable? Shell reports that it voluntarily discharged just over 6,600 tons of oil into surface water in 1997, down from nearly 13,000 tons the year before. Is that an impressive improvement? Or is 6,600 tons still too much? Is there a permissible discharge level? And where did the discharges take place? What about emissions of greenhouse gases? Oil companies may brag about meeting tough targets on cutting emissions of carbon dioxide. But some advocacy groups...
...Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Sterns sided with the University, which had held that any reasonable student would interpret the student handbook as giving the College the right to suspend students even after they had completed their degree requirements...
While Congress remains bitterly divided along party lines on other issues, opposition to climate-change initiatives has surprisingly broad support on both sides of the aisle. Some lawmakers dismiss worries about global warming as little more than "liberal claptrap," as California Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher puts it. Others interpret the climate moves as a sly attempt by the Administration to enact by bits and pieces what the Senate declared it would not do when it voted 95-0 to oppose the Kyoto treaty, an international pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that is strongly supported by Vice President Al Gore...