Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stranger and his friends turn away these purveyors of tainted loot and repeat their determination to seek government support. Yet given the corrupt character of Senator Hum, one wonders why money conferred by him is any less rotten. This question is never addressed...
...anachronisms beguile you. Ten cuts, 10 hit singles on the Bandstand chart. Ten studiously simple tunes with instantly memorable hooks. Brevity used to be the soul of rock; one of these songs runs just 2 min. 45 sec., and most of the others are longer only because they repeat their choruses exactly as many times as you want to hear them. Best of all, no drum solos; the world's most famous percussionist was always a modest gent. Here he jollies things along with his tentative voice and 4/4 pummeling...
...worldwide Anglican Communion, in which 14 of 34 branches now ordain women to the priesthood. The same issue clouded the ecumenical scene last week when Anglicanism's Primate, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, visited Rome for his first summit meeting with Pope John Paul. Carey, who did not repeat his publicized objections to Rome's hard line on birth control, emerged to describe the encounter of nearly one hour as "excellent, excellent...
...legacy in his sympathy for others and his urge for reconciliation. Much of his past is permanently blanked out, though Clinton acknowledges that those experiences play themselves out in patterns of behavior. "If you live in that kind of constant environment where conflict is never resolved, you tend to repeat that pattern when you grow up," he says. "That was an early problem with me, so that I would let things fester too long and then try to deal with them in an emergency situation. Now I think I do a much better job of just dealing with life...
...tussled with police to enter a small meeting hall in Kosovo Polje, Milosevic emerged on a balcony to address the crowd with words that resounded throughout Yugoslavia: "No one has the right to beat the people!" In a show of personal courage, he strode out into the crowds to repeat the message, and the Serbs were galvanized...