Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering the selection of a group of our brighter patients, including.....[blank appears in the text here] to receive a special diet rich in the above mentioned substances for a period of time. We wish to keep an accurate record of the effect of these substances, such as, gains in weight and other improvements, particularly in the blood. It will be necessary to make some blood tests at stated intervals, similar to those to which our patients are already accustomed, and which will cause no discomfort or change in their physical condition other than possibly improvement. The Massachusetts Institute...
Enclosed please find a blank which I request that you sign and return in the enclosed stamped addressed envelope, as soon as possible. The signed and witnessed blank will signify that you have no objection to your son participating in this project as outlined above...
...toughest job a sports editor must tackle is the blank page staring him in the face after two of the stories supposed to fill that space have crumped...
...Christine was ordered to her knees by two teenagers, 15 and 16 years old, who demanded her money. When Christine, an accountant and mother of three, said she didn't have any, the 16-year-old apparently took offense. As Monique watched, the youth allegedly let loose at point-blank range with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun, blasting away most of Christine's head. Police say he later explained that "I'm the big man. I got the gun. Why does she have this attitude...
...pass your taxes, pass more gun bans, and we'll see you at the polls in '94." But even some less biased observers wonder whether most kinds of gun control may not do more harm than good. Gary Kleck, a professor at Florida State University, is author of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America and a onetime supporter of broad gun control who lost the faith. His study of 4,798 homes across the nation convinced him that guns prevented more crimes than they furthered. "Since the majority of people who own handguns are responsible, law-abiding citizens," says...