Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty obvious that there are a lot ofathletes, and that's widely recognized throughoutthe freshman class," says Anh M. Nguyen '00, theperfect yard captain for the Union dorms...
...nearby outlet mall to buy men's clothes and perfume. The 69-year-old Arafat rode a bicycle--the first time in 50 years, he told aides--around the grounds, his trademark checkered kaffiyeh flapping in the breeze, security agents following on a golf cart. It became obvious that any progress would require Clinton's presence; neither side saw value in giving concessions to anyone of lesser rank...
Military unpreparedness is costly, but the news media always seem to advocate the reduction of our defense budget as the obvious and righteous thing to do [BUSINESS, Oct. 5]. The Gulf War marked the first time in this century that American forces went to war fully equipped and fully trained. The results, quick victory with miraculously few allied casualties, speak for themselves. Now that the U.S. military has finally got it right, let's not be too quick to tamper with success. Though some post-cold war cutbacks are inevitable and necessary, history shows that...
...such, Apt Pupil would seem to be a thriller that hovers somewhere between tolerable and entertaining. What's troubling, though, is that Dussander is a former S.S. officer, and this cat in an oven acts as an obvious metaphor for the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, the reference here being a blatant and almost nauseating one to Nazi gas chambers. If far more carefully done, a movie could perhaps have succeeded in making people understand the horrors of the Holocaust in visceral terms, for it is certainly a shockingly emotional event that is all too easily...
Indeed, it became obvious through the course of his lectures why someone with a voice like Heaney's is so obsessed with the beauty of words and their sound. A large portion of Heaney's lectures focused on his translation of Beowulf and the problems of translation and language in general. Language in all its personal, social and political uses is the main focus of almost all Heaney's poetry. Thus, his political posturing was and still is expressed through the subtleties of language (although the works from his most recent work, The Spirit Level, are infused with a political...