Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that I'm no constitutional scholar, and my half-B.A. doesn't match your summa J.D.'s and L.L.B.'s. Still, it seems to me that your proposal--to pass a statute making the flag a national icon like the Statue of Liberty--would easily be contested as a blatant violation of the Court's latest decision...
...best estimates are that the budget is one-half billion dollars out of balance," Osborne said. "We can't allocate money we don't have...
...time when Black median income in the United States is only 57 percent of the median income for whites, professional sports would seem to be a bastion of racial fairness and equity. After all, Blacks make up more than three-quarters of the NBA and more than half of the starters in the NFL. And with each year a greater number of Hispanics are becoming star players in major leagues baseball...
Perhaps the most startling fact to emerge from the grim gallery on the preceding pages is the pervasiveness of suicides -- 216, or 47% of the week's total gun deaths. That proportion was actually below average: for at least three decades, suicides have generally accounted for more than half the nation's annual firearms fatalities. And while the overall U.S. suicide rate climbed from 11.9 to 12.8 per 100,000 people from 1980 to 1986, the percentage of suicides committed with guns has also been rising. In 1986, 64% of the men and 40% of the women who committed suicide...
...decade and a half, the abortion issue has made extremists and hypocrites of us all -- pro-choicers enshrining trimesters in the Constitution, pro-lifers using an ostensible concern for the mother's health to restrict the mother's freedom of choice. Now we can start being honest again. And with the Supreme Court out of the picture, we can have the arduous but exhilarating democratic experience of deciding an important issue for ourselves...