Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less categorical sexual phenomenon. The husband remains attracted to women, not men, save for this one man, whom he devours. The result is misery for everyone -- although no one is quite as miserable as the painter's roommate, a transsexual dying of AIDS. Mark Mocahbee has staged a supple, swift-paced and solidly acted production, minimalist save for screens that display the characters' unspoken thoughts. And the vice squad? They came, they saw and this time they decided the show...
...Cincinnati Pugh (2-1) Chicago7:35 Young (0-2) at Pittsburgh Neagle (2-3) Montreal 7:40 Martinez (1-2) at Atlanta Maddux (4-2) New York 8:05 Smith (2-3) at St. Louis Tewsbury (6-0) Los Angeles 8:05 Astacio (1-2) at San Francisco Swift (3-3) Colorado10:35 Harkey (0-2) at San Diego Benes...
...attention his case has drawn, they know Americans care deeply about the many sides of this issue. Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes on the buttocks with a sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic virtues...
Garofalo says in past "scandals," the councilupheld its integrity by "swift and responsibleaction...
Among the issues that may face future Justices, many conservatives argue that the "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is ripe for swift attention to protect property owners from such government restraints as zoning laws and environmental regulations that reduce the value of their property without compensation. The information highway promises multiple collisions between intellectual-property rights and the free-expression rights of those who would use the data they find there. And the potential of genetic testing to detect a predisposition to illness or undesirable behavior will challenge the privacy rights of all Americans. Any of those issues could...