Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morris' guide to Hong Kong's past, present and future provides useful perspectives on the shifting balances of economic power. If her tone ranges from the cheerfully neutral to the unabashedly admiring, it is because this author of travel books and studies of British imperialism is fundamentally an optimist. New forms and new methods superimposed on ancient beliefs give ! Hong Kong its basic texture. One can see a computer-store manager keeping accounts with an abacus. Hong Kong's skyline bespeaks the sterile utility of modern commercial architecture, yet few of the colony's real estate developers would pick...
...look where Dartmouth took its shots (see accompaning chart). Not one shot taken from in front of the net was on target. And the Green took six shots from either the blue line or the neutral zone...
...Loos did submit her first script under the gender neutral name of A. Loos because she had heard that male writers get paid better. And throughout her career, Loos was at the mercy of the whims and prejudices of the producers, almost exclusively male, who ran Hollywood and Broadway...
Thompkins said that since both sides are going to be in the restaurant. "I've got to stay pretty neutral...
...will be supporters of the winner, who will reject any notion that their man's victory might be due to their own vigorous exertions of the previous few months. It was, instead, they will argue, a fundamental and clearheaded rejection of the "values" represented by the loser. And the neutral political observers will agree: an election loss is supposed to force losers to reconsider not merely their political strategy but their fundamental beliefs...