Word: vein
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...providing a faint-hearted critique of capitalism that doesn’t extend far beyond a complaint that not having money sucks. Dance-rockers Radio 4 provide the basis for the second track, “Middle Eastern Holiday,” and the album continues in a similar vein, trotting out monodynamic mid-tempo homages. The voice of lead singer John Archer sounds a bit like new wave heavyweight Joe Jackson, but stripped of any edge. And when he tries to be James Murphy-cool on the LCD Soundsystem sound-alike “Gotta Reason...
...freedom that was the prompting for having begun adoptions many years ago.” While the Church’s consideration of its dogma is understandable, we fear the interests of the orphaned children are being sacrificed by a stubborn and unyielding Church tradition. It is in this vein that we agree with Romney’s decision to seek an exception, and license Catholic Charities to continue its adoption services despite its policy toward gays. It should not, however, receive any public funding. To suggest that state funding should be given to an agency that discriminates against homosexuals...
...story starts out in the traditional boy-meets-girl soap opera vein, but with a twist. In this case, it’s girl meets girl...
...dark. To wit, the most frustrating part of last semester’s UC resolution to support the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) living-wage campaign, was that it presumed to speak for a student body that it had yet to consult. In that vein, we certainly support UC initiatives to better ascertain the pulse of the student body. But we do so with significant caveats. The UC should tread cautiously to avoid several perils of polling...
...choose their majors and occupations. At the center of a democratic government is the notion of liberty and choice— the liberty to say what one wishes, to believe what one wishes, to profess what one wishes—all without fear of governmental reproach. In that vein, this legislation should not have the power to effectively make such a normative judgment through its allocation of Federal Pell grants...