Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been easy to approach, alive or dead. The "rock- born giant," as Bernard Berenson called him, with his dedication to archaeology and his obsession with empirical vision, was one of the quintessential artists of the early Italian Renaissance. He was innovative, flinty and tough-minded, without an iota of sentiment...
...company's stock can insert a proposal in a firm's proxy statement that calls for a vote on an executive's compensation package. Corporate boards were formerly permitted to block such a referendum. Though the results of the vote will not be binding on management, shareholder sentiment could pressure executives to settle for something more modest...
...attempt at a translation of the sentiment of angels...
...That sentiment was echoed by Miller, the Harvard student working for Tsongas...
What if they gave an election and nobody ran? California enacted term limitations in 1990 amid strong sentiment that the longer politicians are in office, the less responsive they are to constituents' concerns. Some people are looking to place the same sort of limits on the U.S. Congress. The California law restricts state assemblymen to three terms and state senators to two terms, and it slashed legislative budgets 38%. This year, in the first election cycle under the new rules, party regulars complain that they are having trouble getting qualified people to stand for election. As one state legislator...