Word: nowadayses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The price a private company has to pay to build a power plant in an urban area nowadays is pretty steep. The local utility has a monopoly on power that's not easy to break. Federal and state environmental laws prohibit construction of all but the cleanest, and therefore the...
Hesford was lucky. A day after he declined the Birzeit offer, he got a call from Union College in Schenectady, offering him a oneyear position there. He accepted the job with relief although it means he'll probably have to begin the same frustrating search all over again next year...
Another contributor reminisced about the good old days when "you could read a guy like a page, top to bottom." Nowadays, wrote Karl Maves, two strangers in a bar may spend more than 20 minutes staring at each other just "to figure out what the hell the other one is...
Arlen seizes upon the collective memory of his people and enlivens it with merciless self-examination. His account of genocide has none of Hannah Ahrendt's lofty mandarinism. With tenebrous force he comes to realize that evil's best accomplice is guilt; if the victim can be made...
Chaotic Sameness. He concedes that it is impossible to tear down all the jerry-built construction and start anew. But he hopes to "give the city back its face and character." The mayor, who still lives in the working-class quarter of Borgo San Paolo, remembers his youth: "My parents...