Word: neatness
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Marglin said that the Congress would have doneaway with Gramm-Rudman soon, because it wouldn'tbe able to withstand the political pressureagainst deep budget cuts. The court's ruling was"a neat, surgical way. The same result could havebeen achieved in a more underhanded way," he said...
...these accomplishments led Lexington High to retire her number. "I was shocked. I couldn't believe it--it was a neat feeling to have your number retired," Hayes recalled...
...vocation. But you can't love someone into life. They do it themselves. The process is slow but continuous. Sunset Park goes on and on. The work we do, it's not like your kind of work, not like most kinds of work, with beginnings, endings and neat hard lines. It's not like a story...
...quenched the fires in 90 minutes, but none of the plane's occupants could be helped. Soon the area was eerily dark except for the colored lights and searching flashlights of the workers, whose main duty was to retrieve bodies. The victims were placed on plastic sheets in neat rows in a nearby hangar. Their bodies were to be flown this week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where forensic experts would undertake the difficult chore of establishing firm identifications...
Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne...