Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed to the Wall Street Journal last week...
...watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed to the Wall Street Journal last week...
...display of what amounted to mass murder in the context of a game. What the world saw in Bangladesh and Belgium was nature out of control -- external nature in one place, human nature in the other. One ought to be used to such sights by now. Yet a peculiar terror rises in the age of progress from seeing people carried backward, haplessly becoming the forces that oppose them...
...University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy that radiate this amount of energy, but this one is peculiar. None of the others are as compact or as steady." In other words, it behaves like a black hole...
...thing, he is beginning to show the signs of an affliction peculiar to liberal-left wits--Podhoretz fixation. Norman Podhoretz and the magazine he has carried to the political right since the 60s, Commentary, make a number of appearances in the book...