Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing-room areas known as terraces, similar to the areas occupied by the Liverpool and Juventus fans in the Brussels stadium. Sir Philip Goodhart, a Conservative Member of Parliament, believes that one reason there is less fan mayhem at sporting events in the U.S., a nation that many Britons regard as violence prone, is that its stadiums have fewer standing-room sections. Says Goodhart: "It is very difficult to riot when you are sitting down...
...nation's major book publishers. On the other were some of its most influential newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Gannett chain. Reporters and editors could be found in both camps. At issue was the media's right to publish immediately what they regard as news against an author's right to protect a soon-to-be-published manuscript...
...near me. Actually it hasn't gotten to the point where I never go out. I still go running on the street and shopping. I don't send people out to do everything for me. I want to try to do as many things as I can in that regard, because I think if you really separate yourself from people, you start to have a scary opinion of the world. I don't want to feel that...
...DiBiase's clinic are there for the second time; the majority of abortions in this country are done on white, middle-and upper-class women 18-25 years old; "pro-choice" advocates like Spitzer urge abortion as a back-up to contraception. All of this bespeaks a rather low regard for human life. Let's do away with the self-deception and avoidance of reality fostered by such euphemisms as "termination of pregnancy" and "removal of products of conception...
...away from the enslavements of civilization, and his friend Jim (Ron Richardson), a literal runaway slave, have been pared into a purposeful narrative without diminishing the aura of spontaneity. William Hauptman's book also sustains Twain's deeper exploration of how a society could view slavery as normal and regard assisting a runaway as a crime against property. The story starts slowly and wobbles in tone, but achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started in regional theaters and seems likely to become...