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...been a decade sine 1989 came and went, leaving cynics scoffing over the apparent inaccuracy of George Orwell's nightmarish vision of society's future...
...graduate student could not figure out the derivative of the sine wave an undergraduate had drawn on the blackboard...
...corporate downsizing and structural unemployment, the tax abatements are used rather differently. States and municipalities now actively lure companies away from other locations with huge incentive packages that often cover the company's entire start-up costs and moving expenses. With job creation a political sine qua non, cities and states are forced into ever more costly bidding wars for businesses...
...became clear to NBC that its only chance of keeping Letterman was to dump Leno as Tonight host and give Letterman the job -- something NBC executives had publicly ruled out. What's more, a "poison pill" in Letterman's CBS contract made the 11:30 time period a virtual sine qua non of any deal. The CBS contract promised Letterman a $50 million penalty payment if his show was not aired at 11:30. Since NBC, to keep Letterman, was required to match CBS's monetary deal, it would have had to include the same penalty payment -- effectively forcing...
Lincoln was largely self-taught in the area of books and literature. But in politics he underwent a long, hard schooling from his peers, and he graduated magna sine laude from that bruising course. Opponents would later exaggerate his crudity; but as a man on the frontier who neither drank whiskey nor smoked cigars, he used his disarming gifts as a storyteller in ways that later Americans have preferred not to remember. Today it might be called a character issue that Lincoln told racist and obscene stories to make a point among his none too delicate peers...