Word: faint
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...including bongs, balloons and blenders), and spells out 14 factors to be considered by police and courts in determining whether an item is likely to be used for drug-related purposes. Still, the constitutional obstacle remains formidable: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan, in giving the model but faint praise, called it "as constitutionally sound as possible, given its wide range." In congressional testimony Nathan went on to list the statute's potential drawbacks: invasion of privacy, increased bribe taking, and hard-to-obtain convictions...
Albert G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday the satellite was found "as a faint patch of light on a photograph of Pluto...
...Colorado, primarily because of the state's liberal corporate disclosure requirements. New energy companies, which are sprouting up in the gas-and oil-rich region like spring wild flowers, are attempting to turn oil leases into sizable fortunes. Their offering circulars detail risks that would daunt the faint of heart. Speculation also fits the local mood. Ever since gold-rush days, Colorado has been flush with get-rich-quick gambits, a mania seen in the uranium boom of the mid-1950s...
Monday morning's sun brought on faint hopes that Alex Nahigian's Crimson baseball team would finally be able to practice outside. Accordingly, I ambled down around two to watch the batsmen in action on the turf, but by that time the sky was dark and gloomy and the ping of horsehide-on-aluminium echoed out of Briggs cage. Damn...
...with her brother and sister, who asked her if the authorities had treated her badly. Lu responded with a faint smile and said they had not, Gerrit van Derwees, U.S. coordinator for the ICDHRT, said earlier this week after talking with lawyers for the dissidents. As Lu met with her siblings, another prisoner, Lin Yi-hsiung, a lawyer and legal adviser to Formosa Magazine, told his mother that he had signed a confession involuntarily. Lin's mother later called a friend in Japan to describe her son's condition. Two hours after she made the call...