Word: mattered
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...said that the next step would be a "pause" in formal consideration, with the matter to come up again at a council meeting in the future...
Using the Internet, seismologists routinely send each other the latest data in a matter of seconds, and can even take remote readings from outlying stations...
...cash, they have yet to prove the First Dialer actually picked up the phone--and if he did, whether he ever got around to soliciting any money. If it was no more than good-ole-boy small talk, Reno may say there is no reason to pursue the matter further...
...days earlier and pressured him for the money, Thomann says. In the return call, Charny (who declined comment) was upset that the D.N.C. official had given up so easily, and suggested that Vasquez's husband write the check. Thomann demurred. He then informed Sullivan and the attorneys handling the matter for Vasquez that he wanted no part in the transaction. The $100,000 ended up going to Vote...
Quality is another, nearly irrelevant matter; no film has to be well made to be well liked. Indeed, one reason for the popularity of Soul Food is that it pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs. It could be a distillation of some unaired black soap opera, so predictable are the plot contrivances--adultery, pregnancy, illness, missing money--and so cartoonishly are the characters drawn. Mother Joe (Irma P. Hall) is warm, loving, doomed. One daughter, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), is heart-smart and, since she's a mother, a font...