Word: se
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...razzle of its star and the dazzle of its effects. The musical is said to require a weekly gross of $275,000 merely to break even, a statistic that terrifies theater insiders. Still, Henning is one of Broadway's certified miracle workers. With a se ries of pans, The Magic Show ran 4? years. He could do it yet again. If he does, it will be the neatest trick of his brief but astonishing career. ?By Stefan Kanfer
...problems--perhaps with formal education per se--may be that Harvard takes a student to the point where he (or she) comprehends so many possibilities that persistence in a given enterprise may come to seem narrow," Mattson suggested...
...applied was arbitrary, and thus unconstitutional. Capital punishment, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was "freakishly imposed" on a "capriciously selected random handful" of murderers. However, in three simultaneous 1976 decisions, the court clarified its views on the subject, most significantly by declaring that the death penalty is not unconstitutional per se. Today all 37 states with capital punishment on the books have laws that were drafted specifically to conform with the court's latest strictures...
Kenyatta believes Black parents' concern for the overall quality of their children's education has been the real reason for past desegregation battles. "The issue for Black people has not been an issue of radical integration per se: it's been an issue of quality education," he says. "The reason we said let's go to the white schools is because we thought that's where the good education...
...anytime out of the gate, providing Big Red doesn't come up with a burn leg (which forced him to bow out in the second half of last week's race) Blackman may also be in trouble if the air is clear and the skies are not cloudy per se...