Word: spawned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first of these effects is increased understanding between different cultures. When communities are forced to recognize and integrate each other, enigmas that fed xenophobia spawn interest or at least neutrality. In the extreme, intermarriage creates a considerable obstacle to racial persecutions and war based on religious beliefs. Mixed marriages also offer opportunities for personal growth. They allow spouses to immerse themselves first-hand in another culture...
...compound of forgivable prankishness, a bit of secretiveness, some expectable sibling rivalry -- is not just a boyish phase? What if it is actually the first sprouting of a very bad seed? Meet Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin). Who would believe that polite, sweet-smiling Henry is actually the devil's spawn? Not his doting parents, who are still grieving over the presumably accidental death of his younger brother. Not his visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), who is also in mourning for his recently deceased mother and eager at first to overlook a few scary eccentricities. Not the audience...
...Attorney General, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department had reached the nirvana of farce--that is, their utter incompetence started to spawn conspiracy theories. "Rahman must be an informant, or else he'd been in jail by now," the Oliver Stone fans began...
Besides, if we're going to spawn more and more magazines, this is the way to go. Inside Edge probably won't be seeking an Undergraduate Council grant. A subsidiary of Time Warner is handling distribution. (I wonder if they'll door-drop...
Before they were hardly up, New York University was offering a course in "The First 100 Days: The Clinton Administration" for May. Other courses the Clinton Years could spawn...