Word: slivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound may be clean, but the Olivz lyrics are on the harsh side. Ganley cringes at the very mention of what he calls "mushy romance shit. Metal ballads. Aaarrgh!!!" Sometimes the lyrics are sarcastic, and other times they cross the line to snide. The Olivz only sliver of sentimentality is reserved for the subject of music itself, in lyrics like "God don't like on movie show/the people there live in make pretend/God loves his radio...
...would do nothing to help the 17 million jobless Americans. The supply-side economics that Bush preaches, as Presidential candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says, belongs in the "trash bin of history, along with communism." Both economic doctrines, which purport to help everyone, serve only a select sliver of society; the rest suffer...
...What I advocate is a more truly diverse notion of excellence. What we've done is exclude the best that's been thought by everybody but this slender sliver of people who happen in the main to be white males...
...withdrawal unacceptable, since it would reward Saddam for aggression. But, says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, that move "paralyzes Washington's military option." It would be difficult if not impossible to justify a war costing thousands of casualties for such a small sliver of territory. Moreover, since that sliver approximates Iraq's initial demands on Kuwait, Saddam could plausibly claim that he had won what he really wanted. Some American and allied officials refer to this as "the nightmare scenario" since they think it represents Saddam's best chance of escaping punishment...
...Look, wars have consequences. This is a violent and dislocating century that has created millions of refugees all over the world. There are more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, occupying 5 million sq. mi. There are 3.8 million Israeli Jews on a tiny sliver of land. The Arabs have tried in war after war to destroy Israel. The Jews have prevailed. What do you expect from them? Besides, what law of history says that a people aspiring to be a nation will have a state? Look at the Kurds, the Armenians, the Basques...