Word: partiality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When rescue workers recovered the partial body of Leonard's husband Don seven years ago, she fought to see him. She advises Marchese-Collins to do the same. "Diane says somewhere down the road, I'm going to look back at finding her body and get a little comfort from that," Marchese-Collins explains. "If she says that, then she's probably right." --By Amanda Ripley
...this, we in Europe can only feel a sense of disappointment and deep foreboding." Particularly frustrating to foreign friends of America is their sense that even though they will be deeply affected by U.S. policies, they have no opportunity to influence them. This lament suggests at least a partial remedy. Congress has powers to advise and consent on foreign policy, and of course no foreign operations can proceed without congressional funding. In exercising these powers, Congress holds extensive hearings - yet it rarely calls foreign witnesses. Perhaps now would be a good time to begin...
...close links to Big Tobacco, including the New York Tavern and Restaurant Association, which received funding from the tobacco industry throughout the 1990s. Many of these associations advocated an “accommodation” policy, where restaurants would designate separate smoking and non-smoking areas. This type of partial regulation does not go far enough to give restaurant employees a smoke-free environment. Research conducted by the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley, found that even in restaurants where customers may only smoke in designated areas, staff exposure to secondhand smoke was still...
...must admit: My breasts are every bit as big as they have to be. But the ad did have a therapeutic side effect. It helped remind me of Russ Meyer's crucial spot on the American spectrum. The filmmaker who uncaged Bosomania as a movie genre is part, and partial progenitor, of a breast-worshipping subculture (or bust-culture) that demands women carry treasure chests, whether real or artificially augmented. Bigger breasts: Men will look. Available from a plastic surgeon near you. Ladies, don't be satisfied with nature's meager bounty. Be all that...
...Number of miles separating a Cessna plane from the White House after it entered restricted space last week, causing a partial evacuation...