Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen? "It's not me." As a matter of fact, Edberg describes his fundamental hope as the ability to continue patronizing a particular pizza parlor in anonymity...
...deployed in the Persian Gulf. Phased-array radars constantly sweep the skies over a vast swatch of ocean. They can track more than 100 aircraft, surface ships, submarines, missiles and torpedoes simultaneously. All show up as white symbols on one of four blue screens; each symbol is in a particular shape, identifying the object as airplane, missile or whatever. Computers can direct the simultaneous firing of missiles and other weapons over enormous distances at every form of threat. Aegis radar can supposedly spot a basketball at 150 miles and a high-altitude aircraft at more than 1,000 miles...
...Carver's particular turf is alcoholism and betrayal, in the way that Flannery O'Connor's turf was Catholicism and adult children, or in the way that Ernest Hemingway's was masculinity and killing. Frequently, alcoholism and betrayal work together in Carver's stories--couples sink into drinking binges as they despair over their broken marriages, or alcoholism itself is the grounds for a split...
...also found that some groups receiving the money had violated the separation of church and state by mixing religious doctrine into their counseling. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Rehnquist ruled that in such instances the solution would not be to overturn the law but to disqualify the particular groups...
...This particular issue has never come upbefore," said Roderick M. MacDougall, Universitytreasurer and secretary to the Corporation,referring to Zobel's leaving the case. But headded that conflicts of interest such as arose inthis case naturally arise when businessmen andothers take on responsibilities such as the Boardand the Corporation...