Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparing Susan Smith's macabre efforts to escape from her life of "awful banality" to actions by women of lower socio-economic means to "join the public realm," Lezama strips Smith of any personal accountability in her children's deaths...
...Bush that you need as much spark as heft if you hope to win." Cheney makes Baker look charismatic, and this ex-everything is a world-class fund raiser. Both Cheney and Baker will share a slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm of domestic politics, they might not triumph unless a diplomatic or military crisis causes the party to value their foreign policy experience more highly. "Maybe the Islamic fundamentalists could take over the Middle East oil fields," jokes a Cheney friend, "or Russia's elections could be pushed up before...
...misguided way, Smith's bid to escape can be seen as paralleling bids by women from other socio-economic strata in the United States, who by their attempts to join the public realm, are perceived as violating cultural norms and from whom severe penalties are exacted for these transgressions...
Volleyball aficionados may laugh at the thought of the Crimson beating the Tigers, but given the team's improvement so far this season, a big upset is not outside the realm of possibility...
...fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador to the U.N. "Words are cheap," she bluntly declared. "Actions are the coin of the realm...