Word: fining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make a fine politician...
...problem. In sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh suggests that abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Ann (Andie MacDowell) is a Baton Rouge, La., housewife too decorous to go mad. Things with her lawyer husband John (Peter Gallagher) are fine, she tells her therapist, "except I'm havin' this feeling that I don't want him to touch me." They haven't had sex for a while. At least Ann hasn't; John is pursuing an affair with her lubricious sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Curiosity is about the only thing that can be aroused in gentle Ann, and when John...
...election results signal anything, it is the rise of real politics in Japan. No longer will the LDP be assured of a legislative majority year after year, and no longer will it be able to use its power simply to fine tune the existing system...
Folly. Or stupidity? I consider myself a semi-bright student who mastered the art of taking phone messages sometime in my early teens. Yet, as a housesitter, I must straddle the fine line between being honest (that the owners will not be home until August) and being discreet. After all, I'm not sure I want all of Boston proper to know that the owners are gone, and this young, inexperienced and often careless student is now a temporary resident...
...Summer School is primarily, if not exclusively, an academic institution," says Dean of Continuing Education Michael Shinagel, who oversees the Summer School. "If we are efficient and successful and we make money, that is fine. We are there to run an economically viable, cost-efficient institution...