Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bainbridge was also the first scientist to discover that the decay time of radioactive materials may depend on chemical composition...
...House correspondent Eric Pooley. "Everything Clinton's doing this year is designed to make him look good." The program, which will help school districts pay for repair costs and new construction, apparently is Clinton's response to a General Accounting Office report released two weeks ago that documented serious decay in the many of the nation's 80,000 public schools. Another GAO report has estimated that repairing and upgrading schools would cost $11 billion. Clinton plans to pay for his $5 billion program with funds from the federal government's auctions of communications licenses, which have generated about...
...consequences of inadequate public investment are all too apparent in the economic and physical decay that has eaten away at many of America's largest urban areas. It is not surprising that a city like my hometown of Detroit has suffered greatly due to the poor maintenance of its already deficient infrastructure and the lack of any strong ties with its wealthy suburbs (although Detroit's decay can be attributed to many other factors as well). Although Boston will never degrade to the extent that Detroit has, improvement projects like the Big Dig will ensure that Boston remains a vibrant...
...culture that accepted these drugs (both were known to enjoy raves; one even wrote his senior thesis on raves), and sold only to a few friends and not for profit? Were these two (one of whom was a director of a homeless shelter) an example of the decay in our community? Or should we feel sympathy for two bright futures (one was planning to go to a top-notch grad school) potentially being destroyed because every politician wants to look tough on drugs and they were unlucky enough to be within 1,000 feet of an elementary school...
...many Republicans, abortion is merely one of a host of issues--the death penalty, school choice, flag-burning--that supposedly stand for a commitment to values in the face of moral decay in America. These people, Bob Dole among them, don't believe in the sanctity of the human fetus, and they compromise in the cases of rape and incest...