Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present assault seems easy enough to explain away. Martin Luther King's birthday takes a whole day out of exam period: Christmas and New Years fall on Tuesday: and in the thirty-eight weeks between the third Monday in September and thirty-eighth Thursday after that, called Commencement, must fit two exam periods, 166 or 167 teaching days, and holidays for assorted national holidays...
...this potential leverage does not necessarily translate into real gains in political clout or actual enforcement--a gap that threatens to turn the target communities into experimental guinea pigs, instead of the puzzle pieces that the Coalition wants to eventually fit into an overall plan. Given that the Coalition could persuade communities to restrict or ban handguns, they will be most valuable as test cases, both for the purposes of the activists, and for the understanding of the handgun problems. The results of such piecemeal bans may not support the goals of control advocates, but could shed light...
...David Odell's "Supergirl" script keeps the comic at the cost of coherence. The plot has holes large enough to fit the planet of Krypton through, even before it blew up into tiny bits of Kryptonite...
...like people to know that the primary purpose of the fit is educational, not fundraising. There are much more effective ways of raising money, as the Ride for Life ($80,000 in 1983, $200,000 in 1984) aptly illustrates...
Perhaps the only exception was the Garbage Orgy, during which "some people would play or do whatever seemed to fit their fancy." This included talking, playing sports tapes, and listening to music that wouldn't have been played otherwise...