Word: revs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While 80% of Cheesecake Factory customers happily take home leftovers, at lunchtime those 80% feel like dorks for using the office refrigerator. So until 5 p.m., you can now order some dishes "lunch size." Although lunch size here seems to be the amount of food Shaq might eat to rev up for a game. The meat loaf came with the same mountain of gravied mashed potatoes and silo of corn as the normal size but with two pieces of meat loaf instead of three. And our weight-management salad was undentable. I went at it for almost an hour...
...Because the social conservative minority in Iowa has been very effective at getting its voters to attend caucuses, this group has had a disproportionate influence on Republican campaigns. Never was this clearer than in 1988, when just a few thousand voters vaulted Rev. Pat Robertson out of the pack, briefly rattling the establishment campaigns of George Bush Sr. and Bob Dole. Robertson then converted the energy of that boomlet into the highly influential Christian Coalition of the 1990s, which did so much to shape contemporary Republican politics...
...Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi was quick to clarify that the Pope wasn't excommunicating anyone, and that he did not mean to contradict a recent Vatican document that left it to the conscience of individual politicians to leave the Church on their own if they vote against its teachings. Canon law states that people who participate in abortions - would-be mothers, doctors, nurses - are automatically excommunicated. There has been an ongoing debate about whether this also applies to politicians who vote for abortion legislation. But the Pope's remarks seemed to be a moment of personal candor, leaving...
...partner and I look forward to taking full advantage of the new law.' THE REV. V. GENE ROBINSON, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, about a New Hampshire law legalizing same-sex civil unions...
...black woman, I am bothered that Imus went too far, that he's been allowed to spew his garbage virtually unchecked for decades, that the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sharpton are hypocrites and that too much hip-hop degrades women. But I am even more disgusted that Imus' defenders try to trivialize his remarks by citing his charity work. Philanthropy is not a license to discriminate. Doing good works doesn't give anyone the right to disrespect me, my race or my gender. Renee Newbold, Newport News, Virginia...