Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those colliding statements, both from Southwestern scholars in the field of immigration studies, reflect the controversy that surrounds a seemingly straightforward but highly emotional question: Does the inflow of illegal foreign labor help or hurt the U.S. economy...
...home. On the other hand, feelings of gratitude -- more than happiness. Those mixed feelings disappeared ten years later when President Lyndon Johnson invited me to participate in a ceremony on Ellis Island. It was then that I felt very much like an American. My buildings are thoroughly American and reflect my understanding, my first acceptance and eventually my love for this country...
Concerned about the negotiations, Hill then asked the reporters present, "Do you know what the hell is going on?" When told that President Reagan had said he would not make a request to Israel to release its detainees, Hill was asked his reaction. Said he: "I need to reflect on that. I don't want to make a comment at this time." Conwell closed the meeting with a plea for a quick settlement. "If a person is not a legitimate prisoner of war or a prisoner due to other crimes, let's all use common sense," he said...
...from blackness like carnivorous ectoplasm, his throne indicated by a pair of gold finials, the whole enclosed in a sketchy cage -- homage to an original that Bacon firmly denies having ever seen, the Velasquez portrait of Innocent X in the Doria collection in Rome. There are the Crucifixion motifs, reflections of Grunewald and the Cimabue Crucifixion in Santa Croce that was partly destroyed by the 1966 Florence flood, whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There are the humping, grappling figures on pallets or operating tables; the twisted, internalized portraits...
Working under the city's Hare system of proportional voting--which was designed by a 19th-century English lawyer to reflect the views of minority groups--municipal authorities will take only the 2899 ballots which were cast for Russell and determine the next-best finisher...