Word: without
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that without the approval of certain key community groups he would never have been able to develop his plans...
...professional staff is able to exercise so much power over the students because some students are in tacit collusion. Those students who share the staff's agenda are not as disturbed when the staff makes decisions without consulting them...
Unfortunately, the first phase of construction ceded to the second without much warning. The job suddenly got serious. They started driving steel piles into the ground with a giant hammering machine that utilizes both explosives and a falling weight...
...demanding last month that Congress produce a deficit-trimming budget without resort to accounting gimmickry or tax increases, George Bush knew he might as well have ordered the sun not to rise. Last week, as Congress raced to adjourn before the Thanksgiving holiday, it sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...
...depending on the contract. His basic sermon is an attack on "the Boys," as he calls Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke and other architects of efficiency. And the Boys' great sin? To have created an atmosphere that allows scientists to impose untested new technologies on society without considering their broader implications. Says Rifkin: "Faster is not necessarily better...