Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town halls, capitols and churches that looked like Roman temples, just as its map would be dotted with names from Greco-Roman antiquity: Ithaca, Rome, Athens, Sparta, Troy. But the Virginia state capitol was quite new and at the same time old; the strength of its political symbolism was meant to lie in its appeal to a precolonial past, that of the fresh Roman Republic, untainted as yet by Caesarism. Its model, said Jefferson, was the "best morsel of ancient architecture now remaining. It has obtained the approbation of fifteen or sixteen centuries, and is, therefore, preferable to any design...
...monuments, too, can require renovation. Witness the perennial stalemates between Congress and the President. The weakening of party allegiance among voters has meant that only three postwar Presidents have enjoyed four years in which their own party has controlled both houses of Congress. When the White House and Capitol Hill thwart each other on Central America or engage in mutual finger pointing on the national debt, the separation of powers that was the chief innovation of the framers can seem a mixed blessing...
...Communists it was a humiliating defeat. For the Christian Democrats and Socialists it was an uplifting victory. But for the citizens of Italy last week's two-day election meant more of the same gridlock that has produced 46 governments since World War II, and yet another battle for the premiership, which is what triggered the election to begin with...
...penalty which was struck down in a recent Supreme Court decision. The NAACP challenged the death penalty on the grounds that Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to execution than whites. The challenge stood for the principle of equality with respect to race, but in this case that meant non-discriminatory use of the death penalty...
...rookie teammate's view that the Boston Celtics' Larry Bird is a three-time MVP essentially because he is white. Later, Thomas claimed he was only joking when he said, "If Bird was black, he'd be just another good guy." But if by "just another good guy" he meant Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and himself, the statement is not so unreasonable, and his amplification about stereotyping ought not to have been lost in the apology. "When Bird makes a great play, it's due to his thinking," Thomas sighed. "All we do is run and jump. We never practice...