Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stay that kind of litigious stir, not just in Barbour County but also in the heart of the national citizenry, the House approved 1) a "losers pay" bill, which would require the party that had first rejected a settlement and then won a judgment for a lower amount to cover the opposing side's legal fees; 2) a bill tightening requirements for bringing securities-fraud lawsuits; and 3) a bill that would cap punitive damages in product-liability cases at $250,000 and allow judges to sanction parties that bring frivolous product-liability lawsuits. The bills were welcomed...
Bottom line: make the game a school-wide happening. If we can get the school in a tizzy over the Harvard-Yale football game, surely we can stir a storm over a do-or-die hockey playoff at home...
...that I've written are about growing up in Providence. One is a kick-boxing story about two brothers that I knew growing up. The other is sort of a political thriller that deals with the banking crisis that took place in Rhode Island. Any one of this could stir up a lot of shit in Rhode Island--and will. As if this didn...
...hopeful revivalism, a current of fear and pessimism lurks beneath the surface. Anti-Semitism and nationalism stir memories of pogroms past. ``It is still possible to be frightened,'' says Alla Gerber, a Jewish member of the Russian parliament. ``There is a feeling that we are guests who should leave on time.'' Berend, in Budapest, says there have been anti- Semitic overtones in recent election campaigns, such as the word zsido (Jew) scrawled on posters of the Liberal Democrats. ``Things seem good now,'' she says, ``but no one knows what will happen if the economy keeps going down and people start...
Beneath the surface, anti-Semitism and nationalism still stir memories of pogroms past