Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cipollone family and other would-be plaintiffs may find some encouragement in the latest decision. The lower-court ruling was rather narrow, declaring that the Liggett Group, which made the Chesterfield and L&M cigarettes Cipollone favored, violated a so-called express warranty that its products are safe. But the appeals court opened the way to a new trial on the broader question of whether the tobacco company was negligent in marketing cigarettes when it knew of medical evidence suggesting that smoking is hazardous...
...told TIME. In the past, investigators had been unable to penetrate the closely knit fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...didn't express any grief. None at all. That struck everyone as funny," White said...
...globalized politics, homogenized cultures. Amid this bustling bigness and togetherness has been heard a persistent cry of smallness and aloneness, a sense that comforting certainties are being stripped away and each individual left isolated with nameless terrors, deterioration and death. Painters and composers, philosophers and poets have struggled to express this sensibility by reducing their art forms to the essential, scaling ambition down from the eternal to the minimal. Where once creators held that truth was beauty, in these despondent works truth is achingly ugly, beauty a mirage of the memory...
...listened to the various "sides" during the Wednesday debate, a pattern to the discussion became clear. People would express anger at the men's insensitivity and then discuss sexism at North House--in the Holiday Show, in the "joke of the week" or the everyday kind. Several speakers would try to explain sexism, from their experiences...