Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crack's low price and quick payoff make it especially alluring to teenagers. Young abusers, said Arnold Washton, a New York expert on treating cocaine addicts, "run the gamut from inner-city ghetto kids to kids from affluent suburbs." But the price of this highly concentrated drug is greater than many youngsters realize: New Jersey's national cocaine hot line (1-800-COCAINE) has found that 98% of the callers say they became addicted to crack within six months...
...unimportant, victory, the reintroduction of salt marshes on the overpopulated and overused Atlantic coast fights erosion, provides a haven for besieged wildlife, and helps remove heavy metals and organic compounds from waters contaminated by industrial waste. The list of restoration activities goes on as Berger's chapters run the gamut of contemporary environmental problems...
...does not stop at the law school gates. It is a new radical social vision informed by critical approaches running the gamut from Gramsci to Derrida. Gone are the criteria of "scholarly excellence" and "intellectual integrity," the bywords of the conservatives under attack. In their place is a conviction that the law can never be apolitical, whether in courtrooms or classrooms...
...first dashed expectation is that dining at Locke-Ober is an elegant experience. Both the service and the setting are less than refined and hardly rarified. Locke-Ober's several dining rooms run the gamut from gaudy to inhospitable, and despite the restaurants alleged character, ambience is an elusive commodity...
Colorful anti-apartheid protests have become almost commonplace at Harvard, grabbing the campus spotlight and overshadowing a legion of her ongoing activist efforts. From the Conservative Club to the Spartacus Youth League, student activism takes many forms. The following selection of would-be movers and shakers runs the gamut from reaction to revolution...