Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is an extent to which, when you're playing with such large stakes, a three percent chance of success is a good one. Anyway, it's better tilting at windmills than writing about them. If you're going to an insane asylum, you don't want crazy doctors," Fisher added...
...blanket pardon is given to these people who chose to leave America in time of need, I'll keep it in mind for the next war we have. I just won't go. What difference will it make? I'll just be pardoned later, anyway...
...school, and when they received an invitation, they asked themselves why not-and saved $600 to make the journey. Postal Worker Ginny Scott of Santa Ana, Calif., took her Las Vegas vacation money and used it for the Inauguration instead. Said she: "I would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York and Tallahassee who could not afford the $25 for a ticket to one of the seven big Inaugural Night parties. They put on a party of their own at the Northwest Gardens Restaurant, at $5 a head, complete...
...most of their last days in other ways. With temperatures hovering around zero, he dashed each evening from his office to the steaming swimming pool. One night he invited a middle-aged White House elevator operator to join him; the man could not swim, but he plunged in anyway, stood shoulder deep in the water, and can now tell his friends about the time he splashed around in the pool with the President. With four other couples, all old friends, the Fords spent their final weekend at snow-covered Camp David, where a log fire crackled in the huge stone...
...thing, however, is certain: public opinion strongly favors the death penalty. For the moment, anyway. But, according to Columbia Law Professor Michael Meltsner, the history of capital punishment demonstrates that "when the death penalty is used frequently, it provokes resistance...