Word: mereness
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...glory and limitation of this package is that musically, it's kid stuff -- the infant sounds of a quartet that shortly would grow up and outgrow its American masters. Juvenilia may be the last refuge of a cultural historian, and mere Beatles browsers will find as few buried treasures here as they would in Hemingway's high school journalism, Quentin Tarantino's first script or Madonna's early nudes. But as a time capsule, the set is invaluable. To eavesdrop on their casual musicianship and their ad-lib ease is to hear a hopeful teen heart, circa 1962, beating...
...midst of his blast during the CSCE meeting, Yeltsin took care to insist, "We are no longer enemies, but partners." But however one- sided his expression, there is a very real danger that what just a short time ago looked like a blossoming friendship will indeed degenerate into a mere cold peace...
Nonetheless, the tensions are real and not to be dismissed as mere mouthings by Yeltsin to appeal to nationalist sentiment at home. The very fact that Washington bashing is increasingly popular will make it tempting for Yeltsin to do more and more of it -- especially since his prospects of being re- elected in 1996 currently seem as shaky as Clinton's. In one recent poll, Russians were asked whether they would rather live in the "state system" headed by Yeltsin or in the one ruled by the late Leonid Brezhnev, whose leadership of the Soviet Union was long derided...
...number of AKC-sponsored dog shows has increased just as dramatically. In 1894 there were a mere 11 all-breed shows. By 1954 there were 384, and last year a total of 1.3 million dogs competed in 1,177 different exhibitions. Then as now, the idea was to show off the owners' prize breeding stock...
...reason for the original restraining order issued by Suffolk Country Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53 was the mere existence of a constitutional challenge to the election results...