Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centers on three distinctly different varieties: Zen, Tibetan and Nichiren Shoshu of America, the U.S. branch of Japan's 20th century, militantly evangelistic Soka Gakkai, which bears little resemblance to classical Buddhism of any kind. Nichiren Shoshu claims more than 100,000 members in the U.S.-mostly neat, middle-class individuals who commit themselves to hour after hour of chanting the sect's brief ritual prayer, often for the material prosperity and success that they believe such chanting brings...
Last week, as the legal machinery was apparently moving to exonerate both Schrager and Priolo, a New York judge revealed that for nearly a year he had been using a neat double-check system on eyewitnesses. In ten cases where identifications constituted virtually the only evidence, Judge Benjamin Altman permitted defense attorneys to seat a look-alike beside the defendant in court. In only two cases did the previous identification hold up. "Asking for a fair and accurate system of identification is often connected with some kind of bleeding-heart thing," says Robert Kasanof of New York's Legal...
...really didn't go to the Point to look at cars or make neat sociological critiques. I went to watch the premier swimming meet in the East, the Eastern Seaboard Swimming Championships, and find out if Harvard's success in its dual meet season would carry over in to championship competition...
...CRACKS BETWEEN THE CATEGORIES make a nice cop-out for school systems to let the kids fall through," Martha Ziegler, chairman of the Coalition for Special Education, and mother of an autistic son, said. "Now children, especially multiply handicapped children, will no longer have to have a neat label in order to get help," she said...
Today, it was hard to tell the difference between a European and an American city. Most of the old, narrow streets that once gave Paris and Rome their distinctive character had been pulled down by property developers and replaced with neat, strictly functional office blocks. Franco worked in a modest room on the 18th floor of a building that looked like an upturned matchbox. From his window he had a splendid view of an identical building opposite: all the office buildings in Europe were identical...