Word: realm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree. We shouldn't "pick on" SI when there are many more worthwhile objects of accusation, anger, and debate. But to say that Sports Illustrated and its 20-year-old annual swimsuit issue are somehow outside the realm of scrutiny is absurd...
...folk band, they are quirkier, more talented, less obnoxious and almost as danceable as U2. It is not outside the realm of possibility that, if this band learns from their youthful mistakes and continues to match blistering riffs with supple hbarmonies, XTC's Andy Partridge might just call them up in search of ideas...
...producing nations would be eager to take away Libya's European market share. And all Western economies have cultivated diverse supply sources and improved conservation measures, making them even less dependent on imported crude. True, some European nations have strong economic ties to Libya that go beyond the realm of the petroleum industry; fully breaking these ties would cause considerable economic dislocation. But the price is worth paying to undermine Khadafy, especially since any relations with such a volatile nation are insecure at best...
...things you cannot describe to anyone else," says Mary Paul. "Sex and prayer. God lives in a different realm of reality. To talk about that reaches beyond the point of talk...
...plan he has long contemplated. It is time, he says, to renounce his power. He will divide his holdings among his three children and appoint the eldest head of his house. The youngest, the one who loves him most selflessly, resists the idea and is angrily banished from the realm. By the time the ensuing tragedy has played out, the patriarch is a madman wandering the wilderness, all three children are dead, and their world, racked by civil war, is a smoldering ruin...