Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heady plunge into the pot agribusiness began in 1973, when Oregon's legislature reduced the penalty for possession of less than an ounce of the weed to no jail sentence and a maximum $100 fine. Bookstores soon reported a brisk trade in manuals like The Complete Guide to Growing Marijuana. Cultivation still remains a crime punishable by a maximum ten years in jail and a $2,500 fine, but the more tolerant law on possession seemed to wilt the ardor of anti-dope investigators. "The police just don't care as much since the state decriminalized possession of less than...
...other Harvard crews completed a Crimson sweep for the brisk day. The junior varsity came home with the widest margin of victory--three lengths--overpowering its Syracuse counterparts by 12 seconds...
...game the Crimson got off to an auspicious start. With a brisk breeze at his back, Captain Peter Hilton connected on a penalty kick from 30 yards out to give Harvard a 3-0 lead with only five minutes gone...
...Government employees, the rest are general practitioners or private attorneys specializing in governmental relations. It is the latter group that gives the capital a kinship with the place where the California gold rush began in 1848. Established firms like Covington & Burling, with 185 attorneys, continue to grow at a brisk pace; new firms and branches of out-of-town firms are sprouting almost as fast, largely because of ever proliferating Government regulations. In the past three months alone, more than 1,200 new out-of-state attorneys have sought admission...
...Probably the two chief factors in the decline are competition and expenses," Dr. Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions at the Medical School, said yesterday. "Word has gotten around that competition is brisk...