NYT phrases Flashcards
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…inner workings …have
been cloaked in such secrecy
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intensified pattern of assertiveness
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experts regard with incredulity.
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Having rampaged through the wealthier
Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus is
expected to strike next in the poorer South,
where many countries are far less equipped to
cope with the medical and economic ravages.
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He has been up in the White House master bedroom as early as 5 a.m. watching Fox News, then CNN, with a dollop of MSNBC thrown in for rage viewing.
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The executive order — watered down with loopholes after an uproar from business groups — was aimed at pleasing his political base, people close to him said, and was the kind of move Trump makes when things feel out of control
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Some Republican governors are urging cinemas to reopen sooner rather than later, despite business and public health realities that make an abrupt relighting of marquees impractical, if not impossible.
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— Under lockdown,
the banal melds with the sublime
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that have
exacted a devastating economic
toll. I
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The crisis is set
to sweep aside the vestiges of a
more luxuriant media age.
“There were trends that
