Word: properly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more satisfying to find a fabulous cheap restaurant than be a hipster at the latest over-priced hot spot. It's nice to cook, boil water and make pasta sauce. I don't want to slide down the slippery slope. I don't want to be the proper Harvard graduate and get the right kind of job and eat at the right restaurants and drink the right vodka and have the right brand of handbag. I do not want to have changed...
...death," he says. "I didn't see anybody writhing in agony. I didn't see anything that would make me turn my face away." With euthanasia being so hotly debated, he adds, "the story we put on the air, exactly as we told it, was a fit and proper one for 60 Minutes...
...industry's dominant film factory, from the silent era through the talkies revolution. While the other early moguls were simply trying to make the best movies they could, young Mayer was an ideologue intent on using the power of the new medium to exert what he considered the proper moral influence on the American public...
...recent Wall Street Journal article, former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind claims exactly that. Pinochet's arrest would give international weight to the rulings of a single Spanish judge; his arrest, if demanded by unitary actors as it is now, would be clearly biased and unfair: "The proper courts of law for international criminals," Rifkind claims, "are international courts...
...case against the gun makers, on the other hand, has resulted from the absence of proper regulation rather than the evasion of it. The behavior of the firearm manufacturers, even more than cigarette companies, is immoral rather than illegal...