Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instant brand loyalty, a feat unprecedented in the luxury-auto market. Charles Ruffner, a tax attorney in Miami, is a Lexus convert after owning four Mercedes-Benz over the years. "The Lexus is the best car I've ever had," says Ruffner, who describes the Mercedes as "Teutonic and utilitarian, like driving a Jeep," and its dealers as "arrogant...
...would be ridiculous to condemn Rabe's work solely for being too brutal. Theater is not a utilitarian concept, nor should it ever be. The playwright, like Chrissy, just wants to tell a story. And as Harold says, "Life's sad. Chrissy, it makes you want to cry." But Rabe never gives us time or inclination to do so between the short scenes as inhospitable to Chrissy as the characters that surround...
...hope that you will not choose to follow the crowd in pursuing knowledge only for its utilitarian purpose and only as a good in itself. I also hope that you will join SONG in our nationwide campaign to change public attitudes towards education and the intellect...
Once the Uruguayan-born Ott's design was chosen by Mitterrand in late 1983 after an open competition, however, the sniping really started. There were whispers that Ott's utilitarian, curvilinear design had been selected by mistake. There was a revolving door of administrators. During a two-year conservative interregnum, the project was temporarily halted...
...family to decide whether to stop the treatment? By adopting the abstract reasoning of jurists and ethicists weighing legal arguments about privacy and moral arguments about mercy? Through some private intuition about how much sorrow they can bear and how much courage they can summon? Or by some blunt utilitarian calculation about whether it is more important to keep Grandmother alive than to send Junior to college? In the end, individuals are left with an intricate puzzle about what is legal -- and what is right -- in making a decision...