Word: messing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metaphysics that go ghosting around photography. Taking pictures is a transaction that snatches instants away from time and imprisons them in rectangles. These rectangles become a collective public memory and an image-world that is located usually on the verge of tears, often on the edge of a moral mess...
...undermining the dollar, pushing up interest rates, shaking the international monetary system and threatening to put future generations of Americans in hock to foreigners forever. How, whenever moneymen gather, finance ministers moan, central bankers chide, and all stare in horrified fascination. How could America get itself into such a mess...
...next four weeks, Congress and the Bush Administration must raise the federal debt ceiling to $3.1 trillion, find a way to reduce next year's deficit -- on paper at least -- to $110 billion, and scrounge for funds to finance the drug war, educational reform and cleanups of the HUD mess and even of the storm-ravaged South Carolina coast...
...acting very properly here, I feel we're getting the mess cleaned up," Lichten said. But he said he understood employees concerns over hygiene...
...McIntyre, a large part of the fun of owning a used-book store is in fact the oportunity to buy works on all kinds of bizarre topics. As he says, "We don't mess with textbooks...