Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason Frank says he revealed his homosexuality was to square his private and public lives, to protect himself from the Gobies of the world who don't abide by the tacit social contract among former spouses and lovers not to talk because they know so much. When that pact is broken, the results can be devastating. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, an able Senator for two terms, lost his seat to challenger Paul Tsongas amid divorce proceedings in 1978, damaged by press reports that focused on the breakup of his marriage...
...building heavily subsidized housing for the middle class. But neither the casinos nor many of the Inlet's inhabitants have much faith in the effort. "You can't mix caviar with tuna," says Dorothy McCann from the rocker on the porch of her oceanfront Victorian home. McCann, 71, has reason to sound ornery: the agency bought her out last month as part of its raze-and-rebuild plan, despite the headline-making campaign she waged to stay put. "My husband Frank wants me to move out and go to a place where we'll have some nice white neighbors...
...twelve posted a profit last year. Overall, the casinos earned just $14.7 million after expenses in 1988, a meager return on the $2.73 billion that gamblers lost in the slot machines and at the tables, according to Marvin Roffman, a casino analyst with Philadelphia's Janney Montgomery Scott. The reason is the debt the casinos have taken on in the past three years, much of it through junk bonds, either to fight off takeovers or engineer them. Atlantic City's casinos have incurred more than $2 billion in debt, $6 for every $1 of equity. Some analysts say that next...
...that reason the biography is an excellent tool for all students of the law and of the Supreme Court. But Novick manages to do more with his research. By carefully exploring the changes in Holmes' opinions and ideas, he is able to chronicle, at last, the thought-processes of one of the greatest thinkers of recent centuries...
Perhaps Hwang and Glass's visionary view does not provide us with the answer we are looking for, but a night with M and 1000 Airplanes on the Roof can guide us to explore the depths of our passions and help us to overcome the limits of our reason...