Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When two people first walk down the aisle, marriage and divorce seem like distant countries, each with its own language and customs. What many couples discover, when they find themselves caught between one and the other, is that there is a stop in between--a kind of neutral Switzerland for relationships--separation...
...these lamentable historical events unfold, Lenny's sheltered life begins to crumble despite her membership in the Parsi faith, which maintains her family neutral as the violence between Hindus and Muslims escalates. Shanta's suitors, originally friends, begin to divide along religious lines as news of genocidal bloodshed trickles in from the surrounding areas. As Lahore itself begins the tumultuous transition from a former Indian city to its current status as the capitol of Pakistan, a variety of the characters' dispositions also change. The transformation of "Ice Candy Man" is the most dramatic, as he goes from being the reasonable...
...when government subsidizes empty desecration, devoid of any intellectual or artistic value, the state itself is making that determination--and this is the very evil a neutral First Amendment was supposed to guard against. So proponents of the mayor can still support his tough stand on a painting that callously juxtaposed the scatological with the divine, right? So it seems. Until, that is, they learn that Chris Ofili is a Roman Catholic who uses elephant feces as a symbol of fertility. On what possible grounds can we then deny funding to his affirmative interpretation of Christianity...
...Alan?s cautiousness set us up for another black autumn? Baumohl doubts it. "The markets had factored in a no-hike with a neutral bias, so this was a sell-off on the surprise," he says. "But when they realize that no hike is still no hike, they?ll get over it." They?ll have time ? Baumohl expects the Fed to stand pat on the bias all the way until spring, thus making sure there?s plenty of money lying around in the credit markets for any Y2K foofaraw. Of course, unjustified fretting is always a possibility...
...team from one of the oldest states in the union and a team from one of the youngest tangled on a neutral volleyball court Saturday...