Word: sats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspect voters are not looking for rigid ideology when they vote for Governors," Davis told TIME one recent afternoon in his office, where he was meticulously reading every word of the 842 bills that sat in a box before him, often exasperating staff with brainiac questions about missing segments of earlier drafts. "They want someone who will get things done...
Instead I sat there, contemplating the tiny gap between life and death, not sure whether the growing darkness before my eyes was nightfall or my own consciousness shutting down, retracting into itself. Samuel Johnson once said the prospect of being hanged concentrates a man's mind wonderfully. I can testify that the prospect, extended over an hour or two, of dying in a gasoline fireball does much the same. It dissolves your more commonplace troubles--money, divorce--and shows you what you really want to live...
...dinner where Jiang spoke, I sat next to Liu Mingkang, a former Chinese central banker who now heads a large financial corporation. He knows well the vagaries of Chinese freedoms; during the Cultural Revolution, he spent 10 years banished to the countryside, where he learned English by listening to the Voice of America on his secret transistor radio while working in the paddies. Now he is planning for his company to set up an online system for stock trading and banking transactions. "As economic freedoms expand," he says, "we are inevitably securing more social freedoms and the ability to exchange...
...anti-Catholic bias for enforcing a Harvard regulation that professors not use University stationery to put forth personal political opinions. And now that the Cardinal has publicly withdrawn his opposition, Massachusetts' largest pro-life organization, Citizens for Life, is protesting Marshall's nomination on the grounds that she once sat on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a home for unwed mothers that provides abortions. Marshall's position on abortion shouldn't be an issue (nevermind that abortion is still legal in this country); her ability to judge cases fairly should be. And by all accounts, her judicial record...
...sat in the crowd for the 112th Game because I wanted to experience it as a fan, not as a reporter. I hadn't realized yet that there was not much difference...