Word: churns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these remedies are expensive, and we would demand them if our own children's lives were at stake. And yet we don't demand them for poor children. We wring our hands about the tabloid stories. We castigate the mother. We condemn the social worker. We churn out the familiar criticisms of "bureaucracy" but do not volunteer to use our cleverness to change it. Then the next time an election comes, we vote against the taxes that might make prevention programs possible, while favoring increased expenditures for prisons to incarcerate the children who survive the worst that we have done...
...every woman will feel the symptoms so intensely. Heavy women tend to have an advantage at menopause, since fat cells manufacture a form of estrogen called estrone. Some lucky women, regardless of weight, simply churn out more estrone once estrogen from the ovaries shuts...
...turned out, it wasn't a home at all, but a software counterfeiting factory known in the digital underground as a "warez house." In one bedroom police found eight copying machines that could churn out 130 floppy disks an hour. Another bedroom contained fat stacks of glittering hologram stickers -- laser-produced, three-dimensional images that are supposed to guarantee the authenticity of store-bought software. The third bedroom held boxes of stolen computer chips, worth more per ounce than crack cocaine. And in the living room piles of fake Microsoft user's guides spilled from open cartons...
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...letter writing has not ceased with my return. Every once in a while, when the stress of Harvard keeps me from sleeping and I find myself with a few unaccounted for hours in the wee morning, I return to my old habit. I face down a blank screen and churn out a letter. I have productive insomnia. I have victims...