Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inertia, supporters of the building argued that it was required because of the threefold increase in the Senate staff since the last Senate offices were constructed 20 years ago. This increase, they said, was due largely to the Senate's efforts to build up its own staff in order to keep abreast of the actions of the Executive Branch...
...Because of his stance against Big Business, Kucinich refuses to let the city sell the municipal power company-known as Muny Light-as planned by the previous administration. The struggling utility owes $17.5 million to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., a private firm, and is under court order to pay $14.9 million by the end of the year...
Israeli officials claim that the latest Al-Bireh order was necessary for security reasons. They point out that the disputed land adjoins the military governor's headquarters. As one official explained, "We do not want to be confronted one morning by houses on the borders of our military camps." That may be a valid point, except that Beth-El, meanwhile, is being built on land originally expropriated by Israel solely for military purposes. Abdul Jawad Hussein, a retired businessman who owns part of the land where Beth-El is being built, says that since 1969 the Israelis have fenced...
...Even if one could not entirely accept his relentlessly bleak view of contemporary life, there was a certain symbolic weight to Stone's characters, a naturalistic force and detail in his writing that carried the reader along, however glumly. The movie strips most of that texture away in order to concentrate on the action. The result is a succession of classic genre confrontations carried out by dispirited people, movement without brio or suspense. With all the violent interruptions, it is hard to take the characters seriously. But, since so much of their behavior carries a socially deterministic message...
...Spiritual Leader. He should bring trust to his encounters with others in order that he himself be supported by trust...