Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...polls show is a decided ambivalence on the part of Americans over restoring Democrats to power in the House. While Bill Clinton's double-digit lead over Bob Dole has remained relatively steady for months, polls indicating how Americans plan to vote in their local congressional races are in constant flux, with projections ranging from a narrow G.O.P. advantage to a 12-point Democratic blowout. Gephardt believes that if the Democrats can carry a lead half that size into November, they will gain the 20 seats they need to capture the majority. And the chances of that happening, say political...
...tore through the region in recent weeks are the least of their problems. "Reefs are tough," observes Clive Wilkinson, a biologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. "You can hammer them with cyclones, and they'll bounce right back. What they can't bounce back from is chronic, constant stress." The kind of stress, in other words, that is being applied by humans...
...modern world, "demystified" and bereft of great books, knowledge and education (even in a moral sense) can only depend on the method of constant criticism and revision (a method, incidentally, to which Aristotle contributed the beginnings of analytic logic). --David Meskill '88, Second-year graduate student in the Department of History
...four American adults has high blood pressure, but fully a third of them are not aware of their condition, in which the heart pumps blood through the body with excessive force. Untreated, the constant pounding on the vessels can result in hardened arteries and an enlarged heart, both risk factors for a heart attack. Traditionally, doctors could do little for their hypertensive patients other than advise them to adhere to a low-salt and low-fat diet. Today a flood of medications, including diuretics, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme, or ace, inhibitors and beta blockers, give physicians and patients...
...over the years but one who has been mostly absent in this year's losing campaign. Had the race gone differently, those of us who covered him might have seen more of that Bob Dole. But for the most part, his performances have been painful to watch--the constant references to himself in the third person, the ubiquitous "whatever" that punctuates incomplete thoughts, the rambling speeches and the non-non sequiturs. The man renowned for his quick wit and quiet thoughtfulness mostly seemed out of step, unable to make the crucial connections and pivots...