Word: looms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules they spawn that nibble away at hard-earned money. He supports limits on shareholder suits as well as the "English rule," which discourages frivolous litigation by forcing the losing party to pay the other side's fees. The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission loom in his columns as especially power hungry and antiquated. In practice, however, his anti-interventionist instincts aren't so tidy. Forbes has railed against industrial policy, for example, decrying the government-sponsored Sematech chip consortium and the Clinton Pentagon's development of flat-panel computer displays. Yet he heartily endorses Kemp...
...There's a lot of scary things that loom out, and that's intimidating to everyone," says J. Michael Friedman '97, a member of the History and Literature Student-Faculty Committee...
This issue is sure to loom larger as the year progresses. Congress has already broached the subject and may pass legislation restricting access to "indecent" sites within a few months. As public pressure to marginalize offensive material mounts, Internet providers and universities will have to take a serious look at their role in this very public issue. The Internet will have to be regulated; the question is, to what extent and by whom...
Mens sana in corpore sano--a sound mind, a sound body--once formed the simple ancient virtue of sport. But in time too much of athletic competition has come to be writ in mythic proportions. Sports heroes loom larger than life. A sense of god-like immortality accompanies the "thrill" of victory. The divide between life's reality and the fantasy of Elysian fields is being trampled by the universalized pursuit of fame and glory through athletics...
...require that she be a brick: the death of her father and the loss of Norland, the stately digs where she and her all female family have been safe and content; the genteel but palpable anxiety of her mother (Gemma Jones), trying to be brave as poverty and spinsterhood loom for her girls; the hysterically misplaced passion of her sister Marianne (Kate Winslet)--the "Sensibility" of the title--nearly dying when that cad John Willoughby (Greg Wise) leaves her for a woman better endowed financially; the romantic occlusion that prevents Marianne from seeing what everyone else can see, that...