Word: venting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only does the staff vent unwarranted concerns over these common, ethical fundraising strategies, but it entirely misses the fundamental principle behind the gift...
...basket case. The Yugoslav mess is one reason some former hawks have become born-again doves. They have lost their interest in promoting democracy. They look at the postcommunist world and see that the most common cause of war is nationalist hatred -- which democracy, far from suppressing, actually gives vent...
...world of moral complexity and invites the audience to share her nostalgia for the days when everyone seemed alike -- not, she adds, that she has any prejudices. This overwrought, distasteful monologue consistently brings shouted agreement and applause. Of course, Tolins is having it both ways: in allowing straights to vent a tacit wishing-away of gays, he validates his fears of a gene-engineered apocalypse...
...vent located directly above the two bathroomstalls is covered with a gray, soot-like filth. Asimilar substance can be found in gratesthroughout the police department...
...sentenced for drug dealing stormed the federal courthouse in Topeka, Kansas, firing two guns . and lobbing pipe bombs. Before Jack McKnight, 37, killed himself by detonating explosives strapped to his body, he killed a security guard and wounded five people. "There's now a tacit assumption that people can vent their frustrations almost anywhere," says Dr. Allwyn Levine, a New Jersey psychiatrist. "We've become a much more lawless society...