Word: texts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helicopter. At first I thought that the loud rumble of the helicopter unnecessarily interrupted the dialogue and contributed little to the play. It was like the sea creatures to me, a strange inexplicable phenomenon. Also like Leslie and Sarah, though, it had been included by Albee in the text. And it was actually a welcome refreshment from the visible degradation of the human couple. The roar mocks the neverending paralysis of their lives and parodies the tireless moans of their conversations. The helicopter scares the sea creatures, just like Nancy and Charlie did. They are happy; they want to keep...
...Mankiw's reckoning, the average hour-long lecture at Harvard costs students $100. "So the cost of a typical text is similar to--actually, a bit less than--a typical hour lecture," he says. "Where do you get more educational value? From the standpoint of students trying to get the best education for the dollar, textbooks are a bargain...
...When a text is not being used again in a Harvard course--or the Coop hasn't heard from the professor that it will be--wholesalers buy used texts at prices in the range of 0 to 40 percent...
Even though negotiations had started this summer over how Japan would refer to its past, Jiang could not secure a clear-cut written apology for Japan's actions from Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Obuchi did verbally express a "heartfelt apology," but the text of the document did not use such wording. Indeed, despite last-minute efforts, the joint statement appeared without signatures, a fact which indicates, at least to foreign policy analysts, that the document's final form was unsatisfactory to the Chinese leader...
...right of a woman to choose an abortion is nowhere in the actual text of our Constitution; it was found by the Supreme Court in a constitutional "penumbra" known as the right of privacy, which was first established to protect the use of birth control. But the Constitution explicitly and augustly ratifies "free exercise" of religion and "freedom of speech" in the First Amendment. A religiously-inspired refusal to help pay for elective abortions is an exercise of religion, and a denial by government of an exemption must survive "strict scrutiny," which is the same standard applied to state-sanctioned...