Word: modicums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That modicum of solemnity could very well be enough to carry Bush through to November with a minimum of angst over this issue. Although at least one scheduled lethal injection - involving one suspect's deathbed insistence that his alleged accomplice is innocent - has the potential to incite Gary Graham-level protest, and the sheer frequency of executions could be exhausting for Bush's handlers, most people expect Bush to simply stick to his guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support...
...least, masters say preserving first-year traditions and this modicum of choice outweighs the stresses associated with blocking...
...have pizza delivered to their middle-class Washington, D.C., neighborhood and were told they could not have the food delivered to their door - but a driver would meet them in the middle of the street with the pies. Domino's argued that the arrangement provided drivers with a modicum of safety in a risky location, but lawyers for the plaintiffs maintained that the unusual delivery method was racially motivated...
...like it is). It also goes a long way to explaining the real reason why the stock market performed so atrociously last week. What could possibly more seductive than the prospect of making untold amounts of money from an IPO for a website, something that anyone with a modicum of technological savvy can create and maintain? How many times over the last few years have we heard about how groups of college students--portrayed without fail as greasy, nerdy and severely lacking in fashion sense--became multimillionaires overnight, thanks to somecreativeidea.org...
...should begin this article with a confession. Sometimes, when my reading list subjects me to the dense texts of Marx's Capital or Weber's Economy and Society: Part One, I turn to the culture of the American teenage youth for salvation and sanity. Always trying to maintain a modicum of intellectual decorum among the stoic philosophes of Lamont or Hilles, within the leaves of these difficult volumes, I am forced to hide the waxy, radioactively luminous pages of the contemporary social journal otherwise known as Teen Beat. I shamefully indulge in evaluating the subtleties of e-mails sent between...