That is what makes the Endangered Species Act so remarkable.
At the end of the day, however, they can be counted on to act with remarkable public cohesiveness.
At twenty-three, she divorced a "handsome and strong, yet sweet" man, because she wanted something else from love — an act of remarkable chutzpah in 1952.
(In an act of remarkable generosity, Dan Morain, author of the L.A. Times story, acknowledges The New Yorker's role in drawing public attention to this lamentable business).
The government has passed a series of laws stipulating that it has ultimate authority over the "management of living Buddha reincarnation," an act of remarkable intellectual flexibility for the officially atheist Communist Party.
Its restrictions on the jurisdiction of the federal courts were sufficiently severe that the Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and his most conservative allies felt the need to act with remarkable speed to affirm the law's constitutionality.
Many dealers say that Ms. Boone is dreaming, but in what seems either an act of remarkable confidence or wishful thinking, she still lists Mr. Salle among the artists she officially represents.
Johanson is black—I bring this up only because an interracial band existing and thriving in a sleepy Southern town at the end of the nineteen-sixties was an act of remarkable dissent.
Robert B. Reich, the Secretary of Labor in Clinton's first term, who now teaches at Berkeley, told me that he believes political inspiration to be "the legitimizing of social movements and social change, the empowering of all sorts of people and groups to act as remarkable change agents".
"This was an act of remarkable stupidity on the part of Rahman and his managers," said Judd Burstein, Lewis's lawyer, who added that there was no question they would come to terms for less money than "we were willing to pay before this decision".
