Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...correct in describing President Reagan's new federal anticrime laws as historic and far reaching [LAW, Oct. 29]. But the criminal-law experts you cite, who express doubt about the act's effect on the crime rate, fail to recognize the practical significance of these reforms. The laws contain tough new measures to help fight organized crime and major drug trafficking, which have been estimated to cause as much as half of all street crime. The anticrime package also contains more than 50 new sections, many of which enhance local law-enforcement efforts. These include statutes providing...
...could become so Brazilianized, you couldn't express yourself in English," he decided. Nowadays, Rabassa works on the sun porch or in the kitchen of his Long Island home, producing a first version "as fast as I can type." He then carefully revises his draft, penciling in queries for the author...
...probably a good choice," said McKay Professor of Computer Science Thomas E. Cheatham, one of several Harvard professors to express interest in doing consulting work at the Institute if it were located at Northeastern...
...course we suffered a lot--sometimes they'd gather us in "a small meeting where they would criticize us and punish us," he explains. However, no matter how angry they became they could not express it because "then you'd be punished more...
Students organized the boycott of classes last week to express their desire for a settlement of the six-week old strike by workers including Yale's clerical, technical and food services employees...