Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more invidious than the particular ramifications for homosexuals is the philosophy of government that underlies White's decision. It is a philosophy that claims that the state is allowed to enforce the morality of the majority culture. This same philosophy undergirds South Africa's laws prohibiting miscegenation as well as the religious intolerance that plagues so many countries...
...clear, indicating that he was probably not a veteran snorter of cocaine. Dr. Smialek reported that Bias had no more than "an average level of sensitivity" to the drug and avoided attributing the 6.5 mg-per-liter concentration of cocaine in the athlete's bloodstream to an "overdose." "This particular concentration might not kill another individual," the medical examiner said. "On the other hand, another individual could die at a lower level...
...decision on which transition rules get into a tax bill is made not on the merits of the claims but according to the ancient rule of who-you-know. Says one Senate aide: "People with access and power and money get them, and those without don't." In particular, the rules are prime trading currency that a broker like Packwood needs to win the support of key legislators, who are thus able to please powerful constituents. The present tax bill might never have cleared the Senate Finance Committee without rules benefiting a slew of projects in the New Orleans area...
Illness and low course enrollment caused six instructors to cancel seven courses, Pihl said. Usually about four courses are cancelled for the summer but Pihl did not attribute the higher number to any particular trend...
...gray goatee, Giamatti has probably muttered "Damn Yankees" once or twice before but favors neither young Joe Hardy nor old Joe Boyd as much as Mr. Applegate. He claims no athletic laurels. "I was the kid in high school who carried water and kept score." But his particular affection for "the fundamental grid, the geometric beauty of baseball" has always been profound. "My first glove was one left behind by an American soldier in Italy." Giamatti's father Valentine was there on sabbatical from the languages department at Mount Holyoke College. Though Italian enough to feel possessive of DiMaggio...