Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...much reason for us to be here as there is for anything else. It is like Back to the Future, Part II. In the movie Doc Brown goes to a blackboard and draws a chart. The top line is history as it actually occurred. But if you make this teeny little change, which is Biff Tannen getting that sports almanac, then history veers off. It isn't that it is random that it happened the second way. You see, people mistakenly think that my book Wonderful Life is a claim that evolution is random, totally chaotic and unexplainable. That...
...Bedford Falls had George Bailey never been born. It is an alternate reality, like the town with Biff Tannen's hotel. Everybody is much worse off in the town because Mr. Potter owns it now. Therefore even apparently insignificant things, like one man's life in a small town, make an enormous difference...
That diversity can make for great theater, but it is a political disaster for a nation that lacks any clear consensus. For the past eight weeks, Israel has been effectively without a government as first Labor and then Likud attempted to patch together a ruling majority. Both parties' shameless display of vote buying has reached a new low, discrediting Israeli-style democracy at home and abroad. In his Independence Day address last week, President Chaim Herzog warned that the current "political machinations make an absolute mockery of the principles of democracy." Herzog was later handed petitions signed...
...Direct election of the Prime Minister. Unruly coalitions make for weak leadership. Presidential-style balloting would give the Prime Minister a personal mandate from the voters, enabling him to make tough decisions unfettered by coalition agreements, and would make him answerable to the public...
...gaudy gambling palaces. Since last June, federal and state law- enforcement officials have repeatedly raided casinos, confiscated cash and removed slot machines in an attempt to keep gambling within legal bounds. But a shutdown would require continuous police presence, a provocative move U.S. officials have not been ready to make...