Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember a fellow first-year I had just met shake her head at the foolishness of my friends and my questions. "Hello? It's not like I had to leave New Jersey in order to learn what I'm learning in my classes. All you need is a textbook and a video of the lectures. The reason they brought us all to Boston is so that we can meet each other. That's what we're really getting out of being here...
Riding across the plains in Bradley's van, I ask him if it wouldn't be more honest--less packaged--to admit that he switched positions on ethanol in order to stay alive in Iowa. He does his best to seem offended. "What am I supposed to say," he sniffs, "'All you family farms should go bankrupt?'" The van pulls into the parking lot of Bradley's motel. "My little bit o' heaven," he says, stepping out and gathering up his papers. His staff members are staying at another motel. And so, with a little wave, he escapes again into...
...Chinese communities uninterrupted by Mao's revolutions--in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. China of old had three competing and complementary religious traditions: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. While the religions were often at odds with one another--Confucianism, for instance, is built on a base of worldly order and ancestor worship that's far different from Taoism's mystical beliefs--they have, over a long history, fused together. They continued to do so outside China and are doing it again within China. Sociologists call what has emerged a syncretic faith, resembling more than anything else a pointillist painting...
...making him the oldest major league rookie in nearly three decades. He got his first assignment pitching in relief against the Texas Rangers and struck out Royce Clayton with a 96-m.p.h. fastball. A few days later, he pitched a full inning against the heart of the Anaheim Angels order and retired the side...
...sequence "we were not going to finish before lunch." A producer worried about the budget suggested he "broom out" some of the details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes like this that had induced him to cut his price in order to make the picture. Besides, Russell was certain that back in Burbank he had Warner Bros.' support. One of its senior executives had told him that if he couldn't occasionally green-light a movie like this one, he didn't want...