Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...winding plot, with its endless coincidences, cannot fail to confuse. Cymbeline plays out every cliche about lost heirs, wicked stepmothers, all-conquering love, attempted rape and absurd misunderstandings against the background of the Roman invasion of Britain...
...Copsa Mica. "It was as if a gigantic bottle of ink had spilled on the town." Copsa Mica's chief industry is tire production, and 24 hours a day its smokestacks heave out noxious, coal-based clouds that cake faces and fingers, cars and houses, grass and trees with endless soot...
...decree. They will be disillusioned by the time and exertion required to refloat an economy that has run aground. And Chamorro will not perform without error. She considers her mission divine but suffers from high-handedness and an aversion to criticism, no matter how well intentioned. Irritated by endless comparisons with Philippine President Corazon Aquino, another widow of a national hero, she has developed a response both disarming and revealing: "I would rather be thought of as a Latin Margaret Thatcher...
...advantages of the limited-debit system stem from the flexibility it affords students. Everyone has a least-favorite night on the dining hall menu cycle, and a limited-debit system would allow them to avoid it. Secondly, students could avoid the endless lines at lunch-time at the Union, Adams, Quincy and Lowell. The Quadlings who must crowd into river houses at lunch would be free to choose a restaurant instead...
...then there was . . . But the catalog is endless. Events of the past week can only lend credence to playwright Henrik Ibsen's observance, "Those heroes of finance are like beads on a string -- when one slips off, the rest follow." Is there any possibility of knotting that string? Or is scandal as much a part of the market as the NASDAQ? Can the greedy be saved from themselves? Or does Midas play as big a role as Oedipus in the human psyche...