Word: levels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason why the Crimson's skill level on the field exceeds that of other teams is that "we put more pressure on people during practice than they encounter in a game," coach Bob Scalise said...
...period during which I was going to Harvard was a lot less pressurized on a personal level than the few years before" because his was one of the first classes that did not have to "face the draft if we dropped out," Mackey adds...
However, a Cambridge Police spokesman said yesterday drinking among teenagers has stayed at its usual high level. Sgt. Richard Rule added that the only decreases in public drinking by teenagers have been in the public parks, where the police have clamped down. "I don't know where the 18-to-20 year olds are drinking," he said, adding that alcohol consumption in the home has probably increased...
Each of these tracers produces only a low level of radiation and has a short "half-life" (the time in which it loses half of its remaining radioactivity). Technetium 99m, a common isotope used especially for detecting brain tumors, has one of only six hours, while fluorine 18, used in bone scans, is half decayed in less than two hours. Of greater concern are the isotopes used in laboratory tests. Among them: carbon 14, with a half-life of 5,750 years. A large hospital may conduct thousands of radioactive tests and procedures daily, including those with carbon...
...seen to light cigarette after cigarette with trembling hands. His face was at the mercy of twitches and tics, his lips were drawn in an unconvincing smile. A translator read his speech for him; it attacked both U.S. warmongers and Igor Stravinsky, and praised the "unheard-of scope and level of development reached by musical culture in the U.S.S.R." Throughout the reading, the convulsive working of the composer's mouth and cheek betrayed an almost uncontrollable agitation...