Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adults. Thirteen-year-olds are therefore getting mandatory life-without-parole sentences, and there's nothing appellate courts can do to help them. We have effectively discarded these lives. Should we make 11-year-olds eligible for life behind bars? Nine-year-olds? Seven-year-olds? We are inching closer and closer to a moral line...
...contradict President Clinton's Monday testimony. If she does, Starr has a crack at getting the President for perjuring himself before a federal grand jury -- a much more serious charge than any Clinton has faced so far, and one that could bring the country a step closer to impeachment...
Another nail in the coffin for an old illness: The FDA has just approved a new vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough. Unlike previous vaccines, this version uses only one protein, making it safer for infants who sometimes had reactions to older vaccines--and bringing us closer to eradicating pertussis...
Last weekend, we decided to stay closer to home. This time, we traveled ten minutes to the Orange County Museum of Art, a fairly small modern art museum which we had never visited. Once again, I was surprised and impressed. Being relatively small and specializing in modern art, the museum of course has its share of pieces that I don't particularly care for, but it also has many that are quite good...
Many musicians are skeptical of the practice as well. "I've been trying to get on radio my whole life," complains country singer Hal Ketchum. "This whole idea brings us one step closer to the infomercial and limits the opportunity of a great song to break through. It puts us on the same plane as the Thighmaster and the Ginsu knife." Nor will it ever substitute for the real emotional connection between a song and a fan, which was once what hits were all about...