Word: controller
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Homosexuals are not a "minority," opposition to whose behavior constitutes "discrimination." Homosexuality is a sin. One who feels such impulses is obligated to exercise self-control and not manifest his lewdness...
...early years, the contest was fairer. Young Nolan Ryan was the typical flamethrower: all power, no control. His fast ball could zip across the strike zone or into the twilight zone. Years before he became the strikeout leader, he was the all-time walk king. As Bob Feller notes in his new autobiography: "Walks by a power pitcher like Ryan or me are like strikeouts by a power hitter. If you swing hard, it's more difficult to control the bat. If you throw hard, it's more difficult to control the ball." But in recent years Ryan has taught...
...ghetto kid who has no dreams and who lives for the present, finding the instant, brief thrill of joyriding worth the risk. It's senseless, except that these kids have become inured to risk, and joyriding is the one violent activity in Belfast where the kid is in control, steering his own danger...
...seed of his current trouble was planted in 1987, when Trump got tangled in a bruising takeover battle with another tycoon, Merv Griffin, for control of Resorts International. In a deal they both claimed as a victory, the two split up the company, with Griffin taking most of Resorts and Trump getting the uncompleted Taj Mahal. Griffin's older, debt-laden properties went into bankruptcy only two years later. Trump had to borrow an estimated $1 billion to finish the monstrous Taj. Ominously, the city's casino business, which had grown pell-mell during the '80s, abruptly stagnated...
...Foley, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Taxes on gasoline, cigarettes and liquor, as well as license fees and telephone surcharges, have proved to be the easiest way to get money from voters. Although they are more regressive than income taxes, they give people a feeling that they can control the amount of tax they pay by limiting the amount of goods or services they consume. Levies on alcohol and cigarettes can be portrayed as appropriately discouraging bad habits -- Florida Governor Bob Martinez vetoed a gas-tax increase last month, but he and the legislature are considering raising...