Word: main
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main idea is reaching out to more out Catholics in the community and getting them involved in our projects," he said...
While this may be a soothing convenience for frazzled Main Street and mall shoppers, sick of crowds and long check-out lines, it is a loser for state and local tax coffers. Governors addressed this issue--shopping and taxes--in this now waning 105th Congress and so did an Institute of Politics study group on federal and state power struggles this fall. They are issues that aren't likely to go away...
...fundamentally unfair," said Gov. Mike Leavitt (R-Utah), the lead governor on the issue, "that Main Street retailers should be required to collect a sales tax while Internet and mail order vendors can sell the same goods and not be required to collect a sales...
...might expect than only kids would have 55 hours a week to spend online -- the average dose for self-described addicts -- but researchers were surprised to discover that the typical Net fiend was closer to 30. They also tended to be depressed and introverted -- hardly surprising when your main companion is named Dell...
...main railroad terminal, Dora, a sour old woman (uncompromisingly played by Fernanda Montenegro), scratches out a living writing letters for the illiterate. When a customer is killed in an accident, the dead woman's son (the winsomely suspicious Vinicius de Oliveira) becomes Dora's responsibility. The two set out across the Brazilian vastness to find the boy's errant father. Theirs is an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion. His imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting...