Word: particularly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...depends on the particular circumstances," Lewis wrote...
...building, were never in contact with any classified material. Only by choice, it would seem, when one considers that GAO agents were allowed to roam freely through the office suites of Attorney General Janet Reno and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And while neither official was present during this particular encroachment, their absence was due to luck, rather than security measures. Predictably, federal security officials claim that reports of the breaches have already sparked intensive procedural reviews, adding that any future tests would be met with a more vigorous line of defense - a goal that could probably...
When I was a U.S. Senate page boy years ago, we took particular delight when Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois rose to speak. He was one of the last great American orators, given to decanting recondite vocabulary from his quivering basset's jowls. Fustian emerged in a sepulchral purr...
...from You Give Good Love (1985) to I Learned from the Best (2000), is that Houston's sound and look seem timeless. Dressed, for the most part, in simple, elegant outfits and singing comfy pop-soul, Houston has created a body of work too mainstream to belong to a particular decade. in one of the DVD's "special features," she talks about her 1985 TV debut. The band was playing too slowly, so her mother Cissy began to conduct. Whitney learned from the best...
...fresher and more particular hope of the moment is that as more and more of us cross borders, we can step out of, and beyond, the old categories. Every time a Palestinian man, say, marries a Singhalese woman (and such unions are growing more common by the day) and produces a half-Palestinian, half-Singhalese child (living in Paris or London, no doubt), an Israeli or a Tamil is deprived of a tribal enemy. Even the Palestinian or Singhalese grandparents may be eased out of longtime prejudices. Mongrelism--the human equivalent of World Music and "fusion culture"--is the brightest...