Word: tortuous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...district in question had been drawn in its tortuous form in order to capture as many Black voters as possible. The leaders of Lousiana's Democratic Party were trying to ensure that a Black, and presumably Democratic, representative would be elected from that district. They had a sociological argument as well: people want to be represented by the person with whom they have the most in common. Let Blacks elect a Black person and Whites elect a White; everyone will think the system works...
...Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given to opinion and guesswork...
Stephen Oxman, the assistant secretary of state for Canadian and European affairs, said at the Institute of Politics last night that the U.S. must not abandon Eastern European countries along the tortuous path to lasting democracy...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "1922" at 2 p.m. The tortuous anddevastating march of a group of captives throughthe desert of Asia Minor, immediately after itsdisaster...
...political logic of the Clinton team is tortuous. They hope that the debate will make more people associate opposition to NAFTA with support for Perot. They further hope that Perot will discredit himself by arriving ill-prepared to debate the issue. Therefore, since Perot will lose, NAFTA will win. Q.E.D., and four more years...