Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, the bill would aim to crack down on so-called "issue advocacy" television advertisements, which critics say highlight an issue built around particular candidates without falling under campaign financing restrictions...
...born in violence, blasted away from Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at least as big as Mars. To test this theory, a research team from Tokyo University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble that coalesced into a sphere. "We expected this," says Robin Canup, a Colorado research associate involved...
Conceivably, a grand jury could even crack the case. A Colorado law permits one spouse to testify against another in cases of child abuse that results in death or serious injury. But the right against self-incrimination would still apply. That raises the bizarre possibility that either John or Patsy Ramsey could be granted immunity and then confess to committing the murder--and could no longer be punished...
Feminists might say that these figures show a need to crack down on "deadbeat dads." That blithely misses the point. As revolutionary patriot, jurist and marriage counselor James Wilson said, "When divorces can be summoned to the aid of levity, of vanity or of avarice, a state of marriage becomes frequently a state of war or stratagem; still more frequently, a state of premeditated and active preparation for successful stratagems...
...consistent refusal to crack down on problems that are frat related," Banard said...