Word: falle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug problem embodies many of the major social problems facing America--from poverty and crime in the cities to paltry health care to low education standards. Five months into his presidency, Bush has done virtually nothing substantial to attack the drug crisis. Although he spoke consistently throughout the fall campaign about waging a "war on drugs," his leadership in this respect has been inconsistent and incomprehensible...
...today's conflicts between town and gown seem contentious and bitter, they pale in comparison to the titanic struggle the two giants fought in the fall of 1938. That was the year when the Cambridge City Council voted to "secede" from the University...
Answers to this means of inquisition are usually trite and pat, such as horror stories on state college campuses about pledgees who are forced to drink themselves to death, or who fall out of franternity-house second-story windows. The administration then concludes that it will not support putting its students at such risks, and Greek organizations are thus denied recognition...
...President Bush has not yet endorsed the program, and funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...
...such as blood pressure and body temperature to mental sharpness and moods, follow such patterns. Some cycles are as brief as seconds; the heart's permeability to certain chemical ions appears to shift back and forth in less than a minute. Others are measured in months; some people regularly fall into deep depressions in winter and cheer up in summer...