Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meetings occasionally address more than local issues. A few years back, when Richard Nixon was still in office, the Lexington Town Meeting spent a good hour debating in all seriousness whether the Saturday Night Massacre of October, 1973 was enough reason not to invite him to the town for its annual Patriots Day celebration...
...second question that I'd like to address is the question, should companies expand by investing in South Africa? I think the answer to that question should be no. The reason is that while the existing assets will be used, if not by us, then by others, it seems to me no reason to expand the assets and the wealth of the South African economy by investing now in view of the serious risks. Conditions will deteriorate in that country in the very near future, and those assets will be used to the detriment, rather than the benefit, of black...
...major flaw in Sellon's directing: He is not secure enough to let the audience find things funny without prodding, and he doesn't understand that even stereotypes need life breathed into them. In addition, Sellon lacks technical skills as a director. Characters turn upstage for no apparent reason, or stare at the ceiling in obvious discomfort. Sellon chooses to have actors find their puns stupendously funny, depriving the audience of a chance...
...HAVE bigger brains than birds. Somewhere in there, tucked away under the folds of our brains, is a unique sense of purpose; we must exist for a reason, we think. William Wharton's soaring Birdy is about that sense of purpose. Birdy and Al--the novel's heroes--come to realize life is a game worth playing, not merely a block of time to pass away. They force their minds...
Last week Yannacone had reason to be pleased. Citing an "alarming" incidence of miscarriages among women in Alsea, Ore., where there has been considerable forest spraying, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered an emergency ban on two popular herbicides, both of which contain dioxin. One is 2,4,5-T, an ingredient of the Viet Nam defoliant, Agent Orange. The other, Silvex, is used in many popular weed killers...