Word: qua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package the product for sales appeal. Says Italian-born American Designer Massimo Vignelli: "The good thing about design in Italy is that there are no marketing people around to tell you what you can do or cannot do with your designs, which really is the condition, sine qua non, for getting good design on the streets...
...branch. Bitter about his own inability to effect major changes during his brief tenure in Washington, the author doesn't push his analysis much past interpreting the motives of his former colleagues. In fact, now that he has abandoned public service, Fromson seems to have gotten serious about writing qua writing, and therein lies the problem with his book...
...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
Mostly because Jagger is not only looking to get away from women qua women, but from women qua metaphor. This nexus is made explicit on the next track, an acid blues number called "Down in the Hole." When you're down in the hole, there's nothing to protect you from the world of sin, sickness and insanity: "Looking for cover, you will find that there is nowhere nowhere nowaaaaargh to go." Jagger is talking about nothing less than the great primordial woman-hole; in "Down in the Hole" he makes clear what he's been implying all along...
...tried to drive in from Pakistan, he found the border closed tight. Nonetheless, he was able to get a perspective on developments inside Afghanistan by talking to Afghan rebel warriors near Peshawar and at Dara Adam Khail, a wide-open frontier town that, says DeVoss, "supplies the sine qua non of many an Afghan's wardrobe -guns." New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, whose experience with Muslim militance includes being besieged with 90 others at the burning U.S. embassy in Pakistan in November, managed to reach Kabul aboard a regular flight. Yet her stay was brief: at the airport...