Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beginning today, The Crimson will use gender-neutral language on its news and editorial pages. For example, "chairperson" replaces "chairman," and "police officer" replaces "policeman...
...aunt Laura, her lazy and distracted husband Gennaro and their two daughters. For though it is a tour de force of realist observation -- how much more concrete and present the Bellellis seem to us, surrounded by the furniture and other stuff of their lives, than the people on the neutral brown grounds Manet borrowed from Velazquez! -- it is also an allegory of family continuity under stress. The drawing on the wall behind Laura Bellelli is Degas's grandfather Hilaire, and she is pregnant, so that four generations, not two, are present in the picture...
...opting it, especially since one-fifth of the 60,000 who elected the delegates are Communists. Declared Vyalyas: "This is an example of socialist pluralism." And how. Estonia has already announced that its clocks will no longer be forceably aligned with Moscow's, but will line up with neutral Finland, one hour farther west...
Altogether, the revenue-neutral bill reduces taxes by a total of $2.7 billion for some but raises them by an equal amount for others...
...guarding the main harbor of the Dutch West Indian island of St. Eustatius. Legitimizing the rebels with this ritual act was particularly galling because the Caribbean port was used, despite repeated British protests, to supply American troops with gunpowder and shot. St. Eustatius was Holland's "Golden Rock," a neutral speck devoted entirely to commerce...