Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council announced last year that, because of accounting slip-ups, it had an unexpected additional $40,000 in its bank accounts. The money has been split up between various Council expenses, including this year's Springfest...
...case at hand, legal experts are split on how the court will rule, partly because of the malleability of sexually based First Amendment protections - at what point do erotic dancers become simply a vice for consumption and not a form of expression? "Every court is uncomfortable when it has to deal with sexual expression as a First Amendment interest, against the societal interest in maintaining moral order," says Sanders. He also notes the difficulty in predicting how the court will fall on the issue, since it comes down to the moral views of each member. Clarence Thomas may want...
WHAT THEY GOT --SPLIT DECISION Insurers got a Senate bill that contains no provision for lawsuits against the companies. Consumers and trial lawyers did better in the House, whose bill does include such a provision...
Yogi Berra, as usual, said it best: "Prediction is very hard, especially when it's about the future." Yet as we come to the end of the 20th century--a century that saw us split the atom, crack the genetic code and allow Aunt Martha to auction off her turquoise Fiesta ware online--it is only natural to ask what the 21st century will hold for us. We trust that the future will outmarvel the past, but all we can say for sure is that our lives will change more swiftly than ever. In the following pages we ask what...
...nation has a split personality when it comes to consumption and the results of that consumption. We are constantly bombarded by mixed messages. Scrawny, undernourished models peek out from billboards adjacent to giant signs announcing the return of Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt. We are told to "Have it your way!" "Super size it!" and "Obey your thirst!" But mixed in with the chorus of "Consume, consume!" are the plaintive cries to "Stop the insanity!" Is it any surprise we wash down our Big Macs with Diet Cokes? The only people satisfying the insatiable needs of the capitalist machine...