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That was scarcely more than the 5 percent who dared the pollsters' scorn by admitting outright that "the Clinton-Lewinsky matter" concerned them most.
' Although the editor mentions pronounceable acronyms in his Preface, users would be at a loss to determine that UN and R.A.F . are not pronounced but that R.A.D.A . (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts “RAHdah”), UNICEF, U.N.C.L.E ., and Pan-Am are; worse, the showing of radar as RADAR (for `radio detecting and ranging') and sonar as SONAR (`sound navigation and ranging') is in outright error.
Lloyd George himself wanted to get rid of the thing, but he had to settle for the Parliament Act of 1911, which scaled the Lords' power down from being able to kill legislation outright to being able to delay it for two years (reduced to one year in, I think, 1940).
Indifferent reviews for the second live-action version of a Jay Ward cartoon to star Brendan Fraser (the first being George of the Jungle ). It's a "genial" film with "lots of broad slapstick humor that kids like and adults wince at" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few critics are outright irritated--it "disappoints in every way possible," says Kenneth Turan (the Los Angeles Times )--but most are just mildly annoyed.
Everyone expects Putin to win the presidency outright in the upcoming elections.