Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using crack is easier and less complicated than free-basing cocaine. Since powdered coke cannot be ignited and smoked, free-basers wash a cocaine base with ether to clean out impurities. Once dried, the residue is heated with a torch and smoked. The extreme volatility of ether makes this a dangerous way to get high--as the general public learned in 1980 when Comedian Richard Pryor set himself on fire while free-basing...
...assignment as political suicide, but for Cuomo it was a moral conundrum come to life, a test of neighborhood values versus civil rights. What Cuomo learned was that coming up with a simple, Solomonic solution (he proposed halving the size of the project) was a great deal easier than getting both sides to accept it. The resolution he engineered was a way station on the road to progressive pragmatism. The hothead who bruised his knuckles on a catcher's face mask was learning the art of compromise...
...year ago but stalled in Senate subcommittee ever since. It would change a provision of the previous pact, signed in l972, that has allowed Irish Republican Army gunmen taking refuge in the U.S. to escape extradition by claiming that their crimes were "political." The new treaty would make it easier for U.S. courts to send terrorists back to the United Kingdom for trial...
...simple retrovirus. The more we know about it, the more complicated it is," Haseltine says. "It's like the difference between a cowboy's coffee not and an expresso maker: they both make coffee, but one comes with all those bells and whistles, so it's a lot easier to mess up. [The AIDS virus] comes with a lot of genetic baggage which might provide theraputic targets...
...pretty practical way of keeping human society together. Similarly, "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" appears to be a good practical means of sustaining communities. That separating Harvard from supporting an evil regime and benefiting from tyranny also may happen to make the ending of that regime easier does not really surprise...