Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those issues, of course, are what the candidates have converted into their personal crusades, yet they don't seem to be convincing the voters. As E.J. Dionne wrote, the poll "produced other fascinating anomalies that suggest how little the candidate's views have penetrated with voters in the vast region that will vote next Tuesday...
Inman-Ebel's clinical tone enrages some people. "What's wrong with forward tongue carry?" says John Tinkler, who teaches history of the English language at the University of Tennessee. "It doesn't sound like Indy-goddam-ana." Tinkler is a vast, round man with silver hair, dark skin and flashing, protuberant eyes. He describes his accent as "educated rural Southern," the language college graduates in his family have spoken for generations. He wishes Inman-Ebel would attack the stereotypes and the attitudes, instead of the accent. "She's teaching people how not to talk like folks," he says. "That...
...vast amount [of the tuition increases] is tomatch inflation affecting college costs," said D.Kent Halstead, an economist for ResearchAssociates, a Washington-based public policythink-tank. "Public schools certainly aren'tgreedy and a whole bunch of smaller privateuniversities have to raise tuition fees just tocover their costs...
...hope for the Kansan may be that Robertson does so well in the South that he also damages Bush. Both Dole and Robertson pulled out of last Friday's Republican debate in Dallas, claiming that their campaigns had received only 60 tickets each for the event and the vast majority of the 2,600 available seats went to Bush supporters. While Dole and Robertson were staying in the same New Hampshire hotel last week, they met to discuss boycotting the debate. The Senator, however, denied persistent rumors that he and Robertson had talked about dividing their resources throughout the South...
More troubling than the vast scope of Lee's subject matter are his stylistic vacillations. At times, Daze is a Scorsese-type realistic exploration of Black life. Then Lee will abruptly change gears from a conflict scene a la Scorsese's Mean Streets into jazzy, upbeat musical numbers that could have been lifted from Little Shop of Horrors...