Word: sheerly
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...first place do we want government money invested in private companies? The world has had 50 years of bitter experience with the failure and sheer destructiveness of nationalization. After World War II, the British Labour Party seized the "commanding heights" of the economy, nationalizing everything big in sight: coal and steel and rails and utilities. By 1980 Britain was the sick man of Europe...
...sheer dimensions of the brutalization in Freetown in the past few weeks have been hard even for resolute aid workers to withstand. The images that flash by them are otherworldly, they say. Marie de la Soudiere, who heads the International Rescue Committee's Children in Armed Conflict Unit, is still haunted by the shy six-year-old girl outside Freetown who raised the stump of her arm and asked, "Will my fingers grow back...
...homework crunch is heard loudest in the country's better middle-class school districts, where parents push their kids hard and demand that teachers deliver enough academic rigor to get students into top secondary schools and colleges. Now there's a blowback: the sheer quantity of nightly homework and the difficulty of the assignments can turn ordinary weeknights into four-hour library-research excursions, leave kids in tears and parents with migraines, and generally transform the placid refuge of home life into a tense war zone. "The atmosphere in the house gets very frustrated," says Lynne O'Callaghan...
...sheer animal ecstasy, they take in shattering our concentration as we scribble out the final brilliant conclusions of our essays to tell us that "There are TEN MINUTES remaining in this examination. For the remainder of the ten minutes that remain while the exam remains, no one may leave the room until the remaining ten minutes that remain while the exam remains, no one may leave the room until the remaining ten minutes of the examination no longer remain in the remainder of the ten minutes remaining...
...Apocalyptic fantasies, which have always been freely available in an atomic-age Christian culture, are about to reach another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood has had to resort lately to wayward asteroids, space invaders and Godzilla as a way to provide that strangely agreeable image, civilization getting wrecked. "Yeah," we tell ourselves, as the space rock/laser beam/Japanese reptile whacks another ugly office building. "That should only happen...