Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clubs like Paddy Reilly's and Sin-e, also in New York, have & helped break in many of these new acts, giving them a supportive place to develop an audience. At Sin-e (which means "that's it"), Sinead O'Connor has been seen helping clean up. Black 47, which combines traditional Irish instruments such as the uilleann pipe (a bellows-blown bagpipe) with reggae beats and straight-ahead rock, spent several years being heckled at pubs in the Bronx and Queens before settling in at Reilly's. The band's seasoning is apparent on their debut album; with assurance...
...they mean? Was Newton really devious? Can a cat really crave privacy on the potty? In short, do household pets really have a mental and emotional life? Their owners think so, but until recently, animal-behavior experts would have gone ballistic on hearing such a question. The worst sin in their moral vocabulary was anthropomorphism, projecting human traits onto animals. A dog or a cat might behave as if it were angry, lonely, sad, happy or confused, but that was only in the eye of the beholder. What was going on, they insisted, was that...
...stickiest questions turn on costs. Bill Clinton has signaled that he will boost taxes on alcohol and tobacco to help meet the $50 billion-to-$70 billion price tag for providing insurance to America's 37 million uninsured. Sin taxes alone, however, won't be enough. Last week Magaziner privately asked representatives of large and small businesses how best to cap costs in the short term while phasing in benefits more slowly. That idea concerns some in the White House, who insist, as one put it, "We have to create winners before we create losers...
Many of the students have also participated in a protest fast since last Wednesday. They chanted, "HIV is not a crime. Why are Haitians doing time? HIV is not a sin. Close the camps. Let them...
...sensibilities. But journalism as a whole, unlike law or medicine, has no licensing procedure, no disciplinary panels, no agreed-upon code of behavior. Practices that are perfectly acceptable to some major news-gathering institutions -- such as going undercover to expose wrongdoing -- are forbidden at others. At most places, no sin is automatically a firing offense. Editors insist on treating each case individually, which usually translates into permissively. Says USA Today editor Peter Prichard: "It depends on the circumstances, the individual case, the history, all sorts of things...