Word: meant
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...million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...
While society is torn between benefits and risks, commercial scientists have done a bad job of regulating themselves, in Magnus' view. "Testing with breast-cancer genes was offered far too early," he says. "It wasn't even clear what the tests meant." He adds, "We could literally have had women getting double mastectomies because of a positive result on a genetic test, where in fact the test does not mean that they are at increased risk...
...meant to say this a long time ago: his windows are phenomenal...
...grand piano, antique couches and chairs--into the play, never ceasing to amaze the audience. Some members of the audience, those with centrally-located seats, found themselves included in the action of the play, much to their delight and amusement. It almost seems as if this play were meant to be staged in such a manner, in such a home--on a traditional stage, in front of a large audience, the play could seem stiff and overdone at times); whereas, through Eaton's direction, the piece was fluid and lighthearted, yet always purposeful...
...book whose main character is so desperately au courant, the anachronisms and inaccuracies are enough to disturb. References are still made to the late Michael Hutchence, Winona Ryder still dates Dave Pirner, and the de rigeur Startac cellphone is misspelled. A deeper problem is the namedropping. Supposedly meant to satirize Victor's obsession with looks, one cannot help but feel that it just reflects the author's attraction to glamour...