Word: sort
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...sort of feels an obligation to the department one’s working in, as one ages, not to hang around forever,” says Chemistry Professor, Emeritus William Klemperer...
...they’re expecting us to sort of pay for more things, that might impact our day-to-day business,” she adds...
...really sort of spent the money that we have,” says the administrator, who asked to remain anonymous to preserve her relationship with the administration...
...inefficient, and predatory state. The Founding Fathers did not particularly want to kill King George. They wished merely to ignore him. Nor did they wish to turn American society upside down: Revolutionary Americans, like most Americans today, basically thought that their quasi-stateless society was working just fine. (Well, sort of, in any case.) The American Revolution was not about social change, and it is very suggestive that American Common Law went through the Revolution basically unaltered. Individual rights are the key to the soul of American politics and so it is that the 10 amendments are an essential ingredient...
Some people ask whether terrorists should have rights. But there is no way to tell who is a terrorist and who isn’t without some sort of fair process. Mohammed Jawad, for example, was shipped to Guantánamo at the age of about 16 and held for almost seven years despite the lack of any credible evidence that he had been involved in any form of terrorism. Before turning him over to the Americans, the Afghanis who captured him tortured him, threatened to kill his parents, and got him to sign a confession written in a language...