Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forced to unravel the web mobster, cultists, and horseracing in which he finds himself, Theron follows the trail to a bordello in New Hampshire and the dark offices of head Boston mobster Vincent Ciullo...
...administrative terms the web of central control emanates from a core of 64 federal ministries and 23 state committees. Those entities own and operate 50,000 enterprises and dominate a state-run labor union network of 132 million employees. The tentacles of central planning are duplicated in each of the nation's 15 union republics and 20 autonomous republics, and extend downward to the oblast (province) and raion (local administrative unit) levels...
...such a charming place after all. The reader can salvage a cruel irony The reader can salvage a cruel irony from this haphazard flow of events: for all her sexual exploits. Lauren remains a sort of Jamesian character, an innocent abroad, too naive and unsuspecting to see the web of intrigue in which she's been tangled...
...panacea, curing all of Harvard's co-educational ills, of which sexual harassment is but one. Because no aggregate cure may be satisfactorily attempted, it becomes necessary to try to remedy such problems as sexual harassment on an individual basis. This piecemeal approach is acceptable as long as the web of interconnection among serious problems at the University (e.g. the relationship between sexual harassment and a male power elite) is recognized. Only through such recognition can the compartmentalization of sexual harassment, and a tunnel-vision approach to its remedy, be avoided...
...dead after the ceremony would create insufferable scandal. By the time the search for Lee Ann ends, Nat has learned much about areas of life from which his class has conspired to shield him. And with no visible effort, Taylor has spun out a marvelously intricate and fragile web of isolated society...