Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were to allow manual input for purchases made with Crimson Cash, anyone with the knowledge of a valid ID number could buy food at the various eateries around campus...
...only way out of this conundrum is the implementation of a flat tax that would not produce a budget deficit. Yet such a flat tax would require a rate of around 25 percent. Once the various deductions currently allowed are taken into account, such a flat tax would result in higher taxes for the middle class and lower ones for the wealthy. This flat tax would admittedly increase long-run economic growth, but it would also engender even greater economic inequality by undermining the middle class. This would return us to the familiar world of the efficiency-equity trade...
...Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world by allying with various men, eventually marrying a decent, not very energetic white doctor, "a man trained to heal the sick, and in this he would succeed from time to time...
...APPLAUD YOUR ARTICLE ATTRIBUTING some of the drop in reported crime to more effective policing [CRIME, Jan. 15], but we must not gloss over the potentially dangerous differences in the approaches used in various cities. Creative problem solving is only half of what is required to ensure public safety. Police departments must also engage the community as full-fledged partners in identifying, prioritizing and solving problems--or run the serious risk of increasing the threat of civil unrest. Involving the community each step of the way in neighborhood-based problem-solving efforts is indeed a slower process, but then...
...dreamy young illustrator from a northern village who loves America in part because he knows so little about it. He takes to drinking milk, goes to Tokyo to study at the Very Romantic English Academy (English schools in Japan really do have names like that) and falls in with various foreigners who return the compliment by idealizing him: Jane, a tattooed English teacher in red cowboy boots who mistakes intensity for intimacy; and Paul, a refined advertising agent who collects Japanese boys as if they were woodcuts...