Word: waverers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controlled" piracy of films, compact disks and software. Citing last year's bilateral agreement on intellectual property, American trade representative Mickey Kantor cautioned that the sanctions could be enforced if China does not live up to its side of the bargain, and President Clinton chooses not to grant a waver. The warning has the Chinese grandly flourishing their efforts to convince the U.S. that they are complying before the deal is reviewed on February 26, a peculiar juxtaposition with China's aggressive foreign policy. Time's Lew Simons reports: "Even if the U.S. does impose sanctions, the Chinese are unlikely...
...inhabit so many videos. Bute especially wanted to make music visual, to give, as she states in "Rhythm and Light," "a modern artist's impression of what goes on in the mind while listening to music." Bute's witty use of color and shape to express a trumpet's waver or a flute's dropping note make her films especially jolly...
Applying to Harvard was the result of chance. I never planned on it: I was determined to attend Duke, because of its renowned writing program and because it had a reputation as a fun place. And I did not waver until the Christmas I flew out to Boston to see my sister, who was then a junior at Boston University. I spent two weeks there, and on the last day, we toured the Harvard campus. There was something aboutwalking around the Yard for the first time thatevoked all manner of intellectual fantasy for me.I imagined the classes, the philosophicaldiscussions...
...side of his persona, not just another temporary detour. The President seems convinced that, whatever the short-term cost, voters will reward him for being on the right side of the historic debate on balancing the budget. Others, like Representative David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, suspect he will eventually waver. Says Obey: "Most of us learned some time ago that if you don't like the President's position on a particular issue, you simply need to wait a few weeks." If nothing else, Clinton may gain just by proving skeptics like Obey wrong...
...this irony, this self-awareness, has drained us. As the result of our creativity, we are left, my friends, in a world of wavering, accelerated only by our continued reliance on instrumental reason. We don't just waver. When looking for the answers, we stagger, stumble, falter and fumble. We are stuck. Even here at Harvard, my classmates, we've become tired of ambition and its costs. Yes, sitting here among us are some future senators, maybe a curator for the Met or the MFA, a few novelists and certainly some George Soroses. All right then, many George Soroses...