Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug problem already promises to be a hot campaign issue in the 1988 presidential race. Republican Pierre S. Dupont IV, the former governor of Delaware who has already declared his candidacy for president, has also proposed drug testing for all high school students, a measure which attacks basic civil rights...
...often those who have ideas that will aid "the people" forget to appeal to the basic values that make the people "the people." Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, managed to speak to Americans, offer a very radical vision and get much of it into law. How can a liberal, who oftentimes offers a vision of boring bureaucrats and disparate special interest groups, do the same...
Harvard's unnecessarily irritating and competitive basic science courses can wear one down to a human parody that babbles biochemical formulas under the breath and has nightmares about flatworm phyla...
...following speaker, Bob Isaacson, talked about basic ventriloquism, going over the diaphragm and the hard palate, the teeth and the tongue. You can say the letter d without moving your lips, but you cannot say the letter b. Nearly anyone could be a ventriloquist if one's dummy talked like this: "How 'dout a dottle of deer?" Substituting a barely perceptible th sound, Isaacson said "Boston baked beans" without moving his lips, and you could have sworn you heard the b's. People scribbled...
...them, 'Enough of this game.' " No one was arrested, but the questioning could have a chilling effect. Kiszczak admitted that the amnesty had taken account of the "humanitarian intention" of the Roman Catholic Church after Poland's bishops had appealed for release of political prisoners and constitutional guarantees of basic freedoms. With Solidarity effectively thwarted, and many members of the opposition being grilled about church- centered political activities, Catholic activists had reason to worry about becoming the regime's next targets...