Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is certainly reason to worry; Iran's Jewish community is not well integrated into the rest of the community. As in other countries, anti-semetism is rampant. The situation is almost identical to that in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq (let me remind you of the public hangings of Jews in Iraq a few years ago). I am not simply speculating! There are going to be massacres in Iran--unless something is done and done quickly...
...mean to imply that University administrators have done their part in reaching out to students. They have not even been tactful enough to make pretence of doing so. They bristle at our incisive questions. They remind us of our impotence. This does not change the power structure within which we live, however, and to which our methods of seeking power must be applied. It remains for us to develop creative methods which allow the administration to agree with us on substantive issues...
...before they send off the money, they will have to pay income tax on it--as the tax collectors made sure to remind them in the letters that accompanied their checks...
...sheer immensity of the amount may be partly to blame. Bo Cutter, the man from the Office of Management and Budget who directs the preparation of the budget, has made it a point to remind his staff repeatedly that a million dollars is a lot of money. In the hundreds-of-billions environment, a million dollars can be lost like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year...
...Bonds, has a gift for moving this sort of nonsense right along, and the special effects, when everyone finally gets around to blowing up all the concrete in sight, are persuasive enough. There are occasional moments of violent excess (a decapitation, the sadism visited on Bach) that uncomfortably remind us of the harsh realities...