Word: spaciously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most important part of Russ's $115,092-a-year job was to hand out lawmakers' monthly paychecks and supervise a House bank that adjoined his spacious office. Russ regularly permitted members to carry large interest-free overdrafts, some of which were outstanding for years. But the House bank closed last year, after investigators found that lawmakers had written more than 8,000 bad checks in one year alone...
BOSTON--When Jerry Brown was governor of California from 1975 to 1983, he slept on a mattress on the floor of a $250-a-month apartment rather than live in the spacious new governor's mansion built under the administration of Ronald Reagan...
Sporting events are usually in plentiful supply in Milwaukee, varying with the season. The Milwaukee Brewers play in Milwaukee County Stadium (passed off as Cleveland Stadium in the movie Major League), and occasionally they even win. The Milwaukee Bucks compete in the newly-built and incredibly spacious Bradley Center...
...most visible fights are occurring on the political battleground of local and statewide elections. Though the state's economy has expanded over the years to provide opportunity to new waves of immigrant workers and entrepreneurs, the political arena is less spacious. Any gain by one ethnic group represents a loss to another, so the fight over drawing new electoral- district lines based on the 1990 census has been fierce. The only point of agreement is that by 1992 the political map is likely to look very different than it has in the past...
...maybe Peter takes satisfaction in being a dogsbody for the sleazy Michael. In any case, until his story comes to a well-told bad end, he lives detached from himself, an observer. Though Brotherly Love is intentionally a narrower, less spacious novel than Paris Trout, its quality is just as high...