Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similarly lackluster California gubernatorial primary fight in June nonetheless yielded an extraordinary turnout of Latino voters on election day. Propelled in large part by the controversial Proposition 227 referendum on bilingual education, the Latino vote was up a whopping 50 percent over the gubernatorial primary only four years before when the equally distasteful anti-immigrant Proposition 187 came before the state's voters...
...qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championships, the Crimson needed to place in the top six of the 16 teams competing. Over the two-day, 14 race event, the women did not have their most consistent performance of the year, but nonetheless, they scrambled for sixth in total points and made...
Have you heard? The nation is now coping with another schoolhouse tragedy, this time in Castle Rock, Colo. Thankfully, no firearms were involved in the latest episode of playground violence. Nor did any of the pint-sized victims require serious medical attention. Nonetheless, we at Dartboard are horrified by what transpired at the Rock Ridge Elementary School on Wednesday...
Scenes in the style of Mr. King, normally complex and intriguing, are here sickening. Certainly the convention that spares cute animals in Hollywood movies, normally annoying, is here unforgivable: a movie that seems to pride itself on confronting its audience with the fact of the Holocaust nonetheless stops short of this triviality, which makes one consider how real the Holocaust is for this movie, and so for its audience. The ethics of making Dussander the interesting character and his strident accusers the bland and vapid ones are, of course, also questionable. Perhaps if he were a man at once horrified...
...fans, real fans, fall in love not with wins and losses but with an assortment of characters? We cry for the days of lovable losers, guys who couldn't hit your grand-mother but were your eight-year old son's hero nonetheless...