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Word: sinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold while he boozes, wenches, arranges elaborate practical jokes and, in this case, pursues a childish obsession. He will not start his movie until he slaughters an elephant. And why must he assault one of nature's noblest creatures? Precisely because, as he says, it's a sin -- one large enough, as he sees it, to match his own inflated ideas about himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Elephant Man | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...Everybody knows it would have been a conflictof interest," said Wells Professor of PoliticalEconomy Jerry R. Green, a colleague of Rosovsky'sin the Economics Department...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Rosovsky Says He Is Not a Candidate For the Presidency | 7/31/1990 | See Source »

...takes his Atlanta record with him into parts of the state that consider that metropolis a den of sin and crime. To hear Young speak, he loosed a shower of gold over the city -- 1,000 new companies located there (300 from overseas), $70 billion invested ($11 billion from overseas), 700,000 new jobs created. Yet to critics, Atlanta should be his burden, not his boost. Lester Maddox, the clownish ex-Governor running for his old job, said to Young in a televised debate, "You ran Crime City." FBI statistics show a 50% increase in the crime rate during Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW YOUNG: Georgia Is Much on His Mind | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

Faced with a projected 1991 deficit of $3 billion when he took office in January, Florio rejected the back-door approach of relying on increased "user fees" and "sin taxes" (on liquor and cigarettes) so popular among his peers. Instead he became the only Governor of this read-my-lips era to embrace the discarded notion of a progressive tax, which hits New Jersey's wealthiest residents hardest by doubling the bite on their income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Florio: New Jersey's Robin Hood | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Homosexuals are not a "minority," opposition to whose behavior constitutes "discrimination." Homosexuality is a sin. One who feels such impulses is obligated to exercise self-control and not manifest his lewdness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of Sin | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

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