Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because both of these goals can be realized with the present system or the non-ordered choice alternative, the choice is obvious. Choose student choice and diversity. Choose the present system or non-ordered choice...
...that Kirkland House is not maximally diverse is not to say that athletes fit some stereotype of "a jock," because they surely do not. It merely affirms the obvious: that people who spend most of their waking hours doing similar things share a strong commonality that distinguishes them in a very real sense from everyone else...
...exaggeration to say that liberals' distaste for critical self-examination gave the country eight destructive years of Reaganism. Unless liberals abandon mindless defense of obvious failures, we can only look forward to many more...
Even the casual listener who knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...
...short, we just don't do that kind of thing. But what exactly don't we do? Kill people in the national interest? Sorry, we do it often. As a denial of the obvious -- that we do in fact do that kind of thing, and sometimes must do it -- the assassination ban can be seen as an unhealthy expression of national naivete, or as a healthy expression of a national ideal that can't always be met in practice. Even from the latter point of view, though, its practical effect is unclear. Does this hypocritical ban on killing...