Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Historically, of course, this has never been the case, and there are some who argue that it shouldn't be -- that women too must take responsibility for their behavior, and that the whole realm of intimate encounters defies regulation from on high. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger has little patience for trendy sexual politics that make no reference to biology. Since the dawn of time, he argues, men and women have always gone to bed with different goals. In the effort to keep one's genes in the gene pool, "it is to the male advantage to fertilize as many females...
...criticized for letting it finally diminish. And before anyone organizes a benefit dinner, remember that IBM was America's most profitable industrial company last year, earning more than $6 billion. Its profit will likely decline this year, but the company remains huge, powerful and full of talent. In the realm of computers, it is not what it was. But underestimating Big Blue always proved a mistake in years past and probably still would...
Moreover, this practice also has the dangerous side-effect of eliminating certain arguments from the realm of discourse just as much as PC itself does. For example, there are legitimate arguments for an Afro-Am Department, a Palestinian homeland and the continuance of sanctions before launching the recent attack on Iraq. These positions, part of the "politically correct" agenda, should not be categorically dismissed simply because they are part of that agenda...
...only to read the newly-released Baseball and the Game of Life: Stories for the Thinking Fan, edited by Peter Bjarkman, to believe it. A collection of 15 baseball stories ranging from the mystical to the spiritual with only brief forays into the realm of the possible, Baseball and the Game of Life is enough to make any honest fan drool chewing tobacco juice...
...edges toward nervous collapse, Alice returns from a 20-year absence. With her is Cleo, a seductive and hilarious blond, flourishing every new-age artifice from palmistry and crystal therapy to numerology and astrology. Smitten, Alexander finds himself pulled toward opposing terminals: the arena of scientific investigation and the realm of emotion and mysticism...