Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HUNDRED years ago, when the Constitution was drafted and presented to the people for ratification, a bill of rights was conspicuously missing. Its absence was no mere oversight; Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, among others, believed that the liberty and rights of the people might just be safer without one. The collected wisdom has had it that they were wrong--that the initial lack of a bill of rights was the Founder's one big mistake. Yet no one has done more to challenge this position and vindicate Madison and Hamilton than Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork...
Reilly made only two saves to earn a shutout in his first start of the season, as the Judges fired a mere eight shots on goal...
...finished 76th in a class of 85.) It's not even that he somehow failed to cite a law review article from which he copied five pages of text word-for-word in a paper he wrote in his first year in law school. Taken in isolation, these are mere peccadillos. What is disturbing is how insecure he clearly feels about his brainpower...
...Americans make distinctions between "mere gratifications" and genuine moral claims all the time. Our politics is often about mere interests, but most people complain about that and believe politics is at its best when principled. That is why we honor Lincoln and Martin Luther King...
...dichotomies are no mere zero-sum stalemate, sensibility vs. sensibility ad infinitum. There is meaning to this madness. Masterly, highly original work is being produced by designers of all kinds. Arata Isozaki's Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is one of the most fetching new buildings in the U.S. Tadao Ando's severe, uncompromising architecture won him Europe's prestigious Alvar Aalto Prize last year, as well as the respect of young architects all over the world. Maki, an architect who has lived and worked in the U.S., thinks this is unquestionably the Japanese moment. Given the "exceedingly...