Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Each year they've level funded [the AffordableHousing Trust], and we say this year it's notgoing to work," said Bill Cavellini, a 10-yearmember of EFZ. The funding for affordable housinghas been remained at $4.5 million a year since1996...
...tighten the screws until our objectives are met." As for Belgrade's decision on the prisoners, Leavy said, "This does not affect the air campaign" and should do nothing to change the world's opinion of Milosevic, who, according to reports last week from refugees, has only increased the level of brutality in his ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. (Milosevic last week blamed paramilitary forces for the "bad things" in Kosovo...
...amalgam of Qi Gong, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism aimed at moral rejuvenation and a spiritual "cultivation," culminating in supernatural powers and "freedom from the worldly state." (Asked if he is a human being from earth, Li replied, "I don't wish to talk about myself at a higher level. People wouldn't understand it.") His regimen, promoted through books, tapes and videos, was wildly popular, eventually attracting a reported 60 million adherents--4 million more than the Communist Party...
Once I had read some actual backside statistics that Sanchez had gathered--in Seattle, of all places, a city the rest of us associate with outdoor physical conditioning of a level somewhere between conscientious and grim--I remembered that a year or so ago, when I'd had the occasion to share a few meals with some American wine distributors who were visiting individual producers in the south of France, I'd noticed that each distributor seemed to be almost precisely the size of a French family of four...
...about to beat this level. I just need another...Don't touch that! Mom! Now look what you did. Now I died...