Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike in 1968, few people who watch the gun debate expect this moment to produce much in the way of gun-control legislation in Congress. The first years of the Clinton Administration, when a Democratic President made deals with a Democratic Congress, saw the passage of the Brady Bill and the assault-gun ban. After the Republican sweep of Congress in '94, the assault-weapon ban was nearly overturned. What prevails in Washington now is a standoff in which only modest measures, like the newly introduced proposal for gun safety locks, stand much chance of passage. On the state level...
...group of well-meaning men met in the German town of Regensburg. Their topic was Martin Luther's ideas about justification by faith, rancor over which was fast splitting Western Christianity in two. Could justification, which all saw as the precondition of salvation, be influenced by human effort, or was it, as Luther had insisted, out of mortal hands? The Regensburg conferees, representing the Roman Catholic Church and the new Protestantism, produced language on the issue they thought might mend the rift...
Anyone who saw The English Patient knows that return trips aren't always easy in the desert, and Augustin soon discovers that he has no more idea how to return to Jean-Michel then he does how to find the lost regiment. His heat-stroked, knock-kneed peregrinations around the desert land him into new trouble, especially when he steals water from a Bedouin maiden. The resultant man-hunt sends Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this...
...could have waited, I would have bought the HiFD. The drive I saw was fast enough to handle full-motion video, which was impressive; and with 200 MB of space, you would have room for nearly 20 minutes of it--or 88 copies of War and Peace. But Sony had promised the drive by this spring. And when you're hiding e-mail from your kids, who can wait...
...example, on Monday we saw selling in stocks of many retailers. That may have made sense in the case of luxury-goods exporters like Tiffany, which has a large Japanese exposure. But a strong dollar and falling prices in Asia are windfalls for K Mart (a stock that I own) and the Gap, both of which import products from that region...