Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weiss effectively plays both Madam Lucetta and Silvia. Her Madam Lucetta, Julia's servant, is nosy but avoids caricature. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Scully or of Ashley. Over-acting reduces both of their characters to flat stereotypes that quickly become tiresome...
...property owners and the tenants will definitely benefit from the proposal, for the owners will now know flat out when they are entitled to receive rent increases, and the tenants will know ahead of time when to expect them," Sullivan said...
...example, in November Harvard signed a 10-year agreement with the City Council setting the amount of its annual voluntary in-lieu-of-taxes payments at more than $1 million. This means that instead of paying taxes to the city, the University will pay a flat fee over the next 10 years...
...replace those destroyed by American bombers and emerge in a few years a greater menace than ever. Annulment of all U.N. resolutions after withdrawal would relieve Iraq of any pressure to pay reparations for ravishing Kuwait. Whether such reparations can ever be collected from an Iraqi economy knocked practically flat by bombing is uncertain. But Washington has some hope of using the threat of them -- perhaps to be collected by attaching future oil revenues -- as another club to hold over a postwar Baghdad regime...
...Right arm in front," Brown yells during a lesson, in order to have her voice heard over the echoes ringing through the arena. But as the group tears away from the wall to practice another skill, another student falls, landing flat on his stomach...