Word: swears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast promotion campaign has already started. The idea, says impresario Tibor Rudas, a specialist in mammoth outdoor attractions, is to reach beyond opera buffs to people "who wouldn't know whether Aida is a spaghetti or a swear word." Commercials that ran during soccer matches on cable TV's ESPN started the hype. A music video that will air around the world shows the singers gleefully kicking around a soccer ball and singing what the backers hope will be the new Nessun dorma: the brindisi, or drinking song, from Verdi's La Traviata. (The promoters have not forgotten their prize...
That is exactly what the Palestinians who live in the occupied territories are afraid of. They consider themselves high achievers, entrepreneurs, educated and democratic, and they swear they will establish the first true Arab democracy. They now have their chance to prove it, and they are worried that they may end up with another Arab autocracy like Libya, Syria or, at best, Egypt. Arafat's established style of leadership does not reassure them...
Academic proponents of cumulative voting swear by such a system's mathematical elegance. When filling seven seats, even though blacks make up only 11% of Chilton's voters, if they "plump" all seven of their votes for one candidate, that person should almost inevitably be elected -- without any outright governmental action on behalf of a specific minority. Of course, the same academics swear the system isn't confusing. Chilton County Probate Judge Bobby Martin, who oversaw the 1992 commission elections, differs. He says dozens of voters penciled in more than seven votes: "There were so many mistakes, we almost...
...days--I swear, I really felt like that. My mother didn't know why, but my father did. And he'd say, "Get 'em next year...
...early days as a New York hardcore band. They put out a couple of records which you always find lying around record stores. They're interesting curiosities, but I never, ever think of buying one. It seems that they are now "out of print" and unavailable, though I could swear I saw "Pollywog Stew" in the bins at Newbury Comics just yesterday. Well, if you have always wanted a CD that compiles all of these early works, there is now one available on their own Grand Royal Records, aptly titled Some Old Bullshit. As my roommate explained...