Word: okaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pamuk reminisced about the burgeoning of his compulsion to write. “I argue that just like some people need a pill every day, I need some time to be alone in a room...to write every day. If I do that, I’m okay. If I don’t do that, I’m upset,” he said. Pamuk was asked by an audience member for his thoughts on the proposed condemnation of the Armenian Genocide by the United States Congress. “You know, I was expecting this question. Don?...
...motivation is entirely different: these three blockmates are all vegans who have joined an underground movement known as “freeganism.” “The idea is that if something has already been thrown out and is going to waste, then it’s okay to eat even if you normally wouldn’t feel morally permissible to do so,” says Barnard. “It just seems so ridiculous that there would be so much food out there in a dumpster when people are begging on the streets...
...become a doctor or a lawyer or a consultant or an investment banker. One of the motivations of starting “Freeze” was that I wanted students to understand that they’re not the only professions out there, and that it’s okay to do what you want to do. There are people that want to do something else with their lives and there are students that are happy that this magazine exists...
...conversations between suspected terrorists overseas and people in the U.S. without obtaining a court warrant, Democrats started debating privately what to do about the so-called warrantless wiretapping. They quickly split into three camps: one wanted to outlaw the unsupervised surveillance, another preferred to rewrite the law to okay the practice, and a third just wanted to punish the White House for overreaching...
...Originally they were threatening to start their own grant-giving body, and now we’re at the point where they’re saying, ‘It’s okay if you give money to HoCos,’” Ragalie said...