Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quaker smash and got up in time to throw out the batter in stemming one Penn rally. Liz Crowley also came up big, scooping up a Quaker single and nailing a disbelieving runner at the plate--a common occurrence which helps show why Crowley's throws make gun-control lobbyists cringe...
...referendum would earmark seven percent of the annual state budget for primary, secondary, and higher education. One of Tsongas' goals is to win back for public primary and secondary education some of the funds eliminated by another populist revenue control referendum, Proposition 2 1/2, which limited taxes on local property taxes...
...addition to criticizing the behavior of their doctors, the panelists also questioned the ethics of researchers who withheld treatment from AIDS in "control groups" as part of their experiments...
...Andrew H. Geiger said experiments using control groups were accurate but cost too much in human lives. "You can get really effective data really quickly, but you'll kill a bunch of people," said Geiger, who called himself the "token gay, white middle-class male" on the panel...
...regulating market activity is not an adequate solution. It only works to control activities that are actually destructive, such as environmental pollution and corporate negligence. SAT prep courses, though they perpetuate an injustice, cannot be legitimately prohibited just because they are morally unpalatable to some...