Word: pit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the artists said they looked at "The Zoo" as a protest against the building's relatively poor living conditions. As one hall resident, who requested anonymity, said. "This place is such a pit, it is our duty to liven...
...witness a government engaged in the arduous process of actually looking at each and every expenditure of the taxpayers' money. Hopefully every sector of the federal budget will feel pressure to save, including defense. The days are over when Congress can treat the American economy like a bottomless pit of resources from which to fund every program imagination can dream up. Ronald Reagan deserves a great deal of credit for putting back into the political agenda the notion that government should be responsive to the electorate, and that the federal budget cannot inevitably acquire a momentum uncontrollable by our elected...
...journey to find Garbo like an excessively long road trip. The scenes with the people Gilly meets, like the obsequious agent and the forgetful old film star, which could have been funny, resemble drawn out pit stops. Most of the time we want to tell Gilly to get back...
...presented the two religions as inherently hostile towards each other. Yet this interpretation misstates, the true nature of the Hindu religious tradition; the non-credal, non-dogmatic nature of Hinduism allows it to be extremely pluralistic and to uphold coexistence with the Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. Moreover, to pit Sikhism and Hinduism against one another overlooks the long history of cross-religious linkages. For instance, Hindus have worshipped Sikh temples and Sikhs in Hindu temples for years and the two groups do intermarry...
...Pit Ferraro against Bush for the presidency, and I could really get excited about this election. For once I would have a choice between two intelligent, articulate and caring candidates...