Word: permanente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dolphins might have avoided all this attention if evolution had contrived to give them a permanent frown instead of a permanent smile, or if their foreheads, which bulge with echo-location organs, did not make them look so intelligent. But for whatever reason, people think of the animals as special...
What we're doing is not a contradiction of our ideology. Price controls were a consequence of the lack of markets, the lack of development and the existence of monopolies and oligopolies. These deficiencies required policies that should have been temporary but became permanent. Now we're correcting past errors...
But that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up...
Running through the joy in West Germany, however, was a not-so-subtle undertone of anxiety. Suppose the crumbling of the Wall increases rather than reduces the flood of permanent refugees? West Germany's resources are being strained in absorbing, so far this year, the 225,000 immigrants from East...
The domestic-partnership movement, says David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, a Manhattan-based group that studies family issues, "just misses the whole point of why we confer privileges on family relationships." As Archbishop Quinn argues, "The permanent commitment of husband and wife in marriage is intrinsically tied...