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In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that, indeed, denial of same-sex marriage amounted to discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation.
Fragments of fiction appeared in The New Yorker throughout the '60s and '70s, but they eventually amounted not to a novel but to a second collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (1988).
Until the 20th century it never amounted to more than a fishing village.
Left-leaning critics such as historian Jackson Lears, writing in the New Republic , say that the widespread adoption of Taylor's theories amounted to "a horror story" in which cold-blooded management stripped workers of their last shreds of autonomy.
Thus, the fixed portion of delivery in the U.S. amounted to about 14 percent of total cost.