Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allows government agencies to carry out "administrative seizures" that do not require the owner to be convicted of any crime. Police and federal agents in New York City and Los Angeles have been using that method to impound the cars of drive-in drug buyers whose purchases would bring merely a misdemeanor charge in court. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who proposed zero tolerance to the White House drug-policy board after a successful pilot program in San Diego, says its purpose is likewise to put pressure on drug users who ordinarily are not reached by criminal penalties...
...simple the first time around. Find a natural man and bring him to the big city where he can teach the slickers a thing or two about the continuing validity of the simple values like courage, modesty, an equable temperament and a straightforward definition of right and wrong. It was a little like watching Mr. Smith go to Washington or Mr. Deeds go to town. Except that Mick ("Crocodile") Dundee (Paul Hogan) not only spoke softly but also carried this enormous Australian bush knife, particularly useful in cutting through useless conversations...
...Oakland A's--one of the few baseball executives who cares more about their players and the state of the game than about making money from it. Angell shows that Eisenhardt considers baseball not as merely another tidy, profitable investment, but rather as an activity that can bring joy to thousands and provide a badly needed diversion from our daily lives...
...more than 30 years, doctors have been trying to rally the weakened immune systems of cancer patients to fight the disease. Only recently, however, have therapies been developed that bring some of the body's own most potent weapons to bear in the struggle to repel invaders ranging from cancer to the AIDS virus. Those weapons include antibodies, tumor-killing blood cells and the chemical messengers that regulate them...
...Regan memoir is only the latest to bare the Administration' s inner workings. The White House cries "disloyalty," but the Reagans seem to bring it on themselves. -- Two conservative Washington insiders use leaks to tilt U. S. policy against the Soviets. -- Congress has exempted itself from a broad array of laws covering civil rights and safety requirements...