Word: shrugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industrial backbone, was built above a well-documented fracture, which will certainly rock again. Given that the area was constructed so recklessly in the first place, there is a real danger it will be put back together just as badly. "This is Turkey," Turks like to say with a shrug, to explain away such absurdities. This time, however, the authorities say they will not make the old mistakes. And Turkey's people, shaken out of their traditional deference to the state, are determined not to let their leaders backslide...
Several patrons try to shrug off the icy fear the film's neural refrigerator has locked them into. A trio of teens emerging from a screening in Alexandria, Va., refuse to walk to their car, parked near a woodsy area, because "that movie scared me to death," says Shawna Daniels, 14, "and I'm not ever going near the woods again!" A ticket taker graciously walks them to the car. When asked if he has seen the film, he replies, "Not on your life. I don't want to be that scared." For others, the thaw will take longer...
...heir! No, the increasingly decrepit President Yeltsin hasn?t improbably sired a late-in-life son; on Monday he named his intelligence chief as his sixth prime minister in 17 months ?- and made clear that Vladimir Putin should succeed him as President. "Russians greet changes of government with a shrug, but the country is reeling on Yeltsin?s announcement that his new prime minister is his chosen successor as president," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "His vanity and self-preservation instinct has never allowed Yeltsin to previously name an heir...
...work, while we have people like Rick Thorne on the air." (Mind you, Rick Thorne is a BMX "expert" who has tattoos that creep up and down his arms and, perhaps most disturbingly, emerge through his collar on each side of his neck.) With that, the host gave a shrug to the camera, and with a charming glow in his eyes, returned to the scripted show...
Also, this lack of interest in being sensitive to other races means that even if Russians admit that there is some unjust discrimination towards Caucasians by the police, they shrug it off as a fact of life. After all, haven't Russians had their own hardships? If Caucasians must deal with racism, that is their lot. Why bother about a little thing like racism...