Word: overly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The world keeps peeping in, especially in Scully's color, which is richly organic and never blatant. Its tawny ochers and deep blues suggest landscape, though in a distant way. The whites in Pale Fire, 1988, are not flat white but a subtle paste applied over a warm brown ground...
Besides being emotionally stressful for some, menopause can bring physical discomfort and may lead the way to serious health risks in older women. When their reproductive years end and the production of sex hormones drops, women face not only the prospect of hot flashes and insomnia but also a greater...
The Administration plan would cut capital-gains taxes to 15% but would also phase in a rule requiring investors to hold an asset for three years in order to qualify for this rate. The House measure, proposed by Georgia Democrat Ed Jenkins, would cut capital-gains taxes to 20% on...
-- Impose a security-transactions tax on each sale of a stock or bond to further encourage longer-term investment over churning. At the 0.5% rate charged by Britain and Japan, such a tax would raise $10 billion a year for the Treasury.
There was another element of hypocrisy in the Republican complaints. As Lucas' proponents are well aware, there is no such thing as an apolitical political appointment. The Bush Administration, which hopes to attract more black voters to the G.O.P., certainly had that goal in mind when it selected a black...