Word: faze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of a graduating class this year doesn't faze the school's administrators--it's happened before. In 1917, for instance, the school went from a three- to a four-year program, wiping out its potential 1920 Commencement line...
...devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family? I'm a victim of a crooked criminal system. Isn't my family entitled to something?" The shadow of the death penalty does not faze him: "I don't see that happening to me. What would killing me solve? Isn't that just another murder? If I got to die, it's going to be of natural causes." The state of Illinois thinks otherwise. Says Michael Ficaro, who prosecuted the I-57 case...
...surprised middle-aged person, was the announcement from Washington that the number of Americans officially designated as poor had increased to 14% of the population. What seemed incredible was not the painful number of the poor or the painful increase in that number-painful things do not faze the surprised middle-aged person-but rather the fact that the Federal Government now defines the poverty line as an income of $9,287 for a family of four...
...governments, fatigue, war, strikes, political turmoil, assassination attempts-nothing seems to faze John Paul. In short, this peripatetic Pope seems unwilling to rest on his laurels, considerable though they may be after his triumph in Britain...
...reevaluate your priorities. Certain things become more important--friends, family, that sort of thing. Things that used to make me mad now just don't faze me. Things don't faze me, things don't scare me. Things get put in perspective...