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While the courts debate whether the team can be legally moved at this point in their contract, it is widely believed that Tampa-St. Petersburg would be the eager recipients of a transient Mariners team. There is more "support" for baseball in Florida, Smulyan says...
...that restaurant makes most of its profits from a more transient clientele: tourists. It lacks a strong showing of local regulars...
...Certainly, many past immigrants were encouraged to ape their "betters," as the parlance then called them -- to model their speech and demeanor on the dominant examples of white Anglo- Saxon Protestants, some of whom, in turn, were trying to imitate the British aristocracy. But this imperative belongs to the transient domains of fashion and snobbery, and in any case sycophancy is not unique to America or to Western societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against the non-Western or nonwhite. Who or what is the villain here? Galileo? Einstein? The Magna Carta? The Bill...
...serious mental disorders, mostly schizophrenia and manic depression, as do 10% of the 1 million people behind bars. With 3,600 psychotic inmates, the Los Angeles County jail is "the largest de facto mental institution in the nation," says the report. Countless other distressed people inhabit squalid apartments or transient hotels, without adequate food, clothing or medical care...
...gives a striking performance in her final confrontation scene with her husband Al (Anthony Koronto Hatch), and it is unfortunate that the rest of her time on stage could not have been as powerful. The delivery of earlier lines is impeded by an inexplicable and transient country-girl twang. In the end, Forbes has won the audience's pity rather than affection...