Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Violence" course conducted a telephone survey of 125 randomly selected residents of Gainesville, a college town with a higher than average educational level. The results indicated that only 57.6% of the people interviewed could identify Sara Jane Moore. While 73.6% of the sample knew who "Squeaky" Fromme is, a mere 26.4% had heard of or could recall the cause Fromme claimed to be exposing...
...inject a drug to terminate life," as Dr. Winter puts it -the law demands a verdict of intentional homicide. But on the question of a doctor shutting off a life-supporting machine and permitting a patient to die, the law is largely silent. This is considered a mere "act of omission," and whether it constitutes homicide is a matter that has yet to be settled in court...
Autographs (or holographs), as distinct from mere signatures, are by definition documents in the author's handwriting - preferably signed by him. Their value depends on rarity, content -usually their historic significance - and the writer's eminence. With inflation and the uncertain stock market, many buyers have turned to autographs and other tangible investments like diamonds, antiques and rare books, thus driving up prices. "In the past five to seven years, business has more than doubled, even tripled," says Doris Harris, a Los Angeles autograph dealer. Reports Sara Willen, another Los Angeles dealer: "Good manuscripts on the average...
...Steven Symms explained the issue before a congressional committee saying, "Gun prohibitionists, like the liquor prohibitionists in the 1920s, reach their positions through the use of convoluted logic about human behavior. Their assumption is that human beings are victims--mere pawns of the inanimate objects around them. Remove the objects and all will be well. The prohibition period should have taught us that this kind of reasoning is nonsense...
...other city runs a huge university system, let alone one that costs virtually nothing for undergraduates to attend. While tuition at most public universities, including New York State's, amounts to at least several hundred dollars a year, an undergraduate at the City University of New York pays a mere $110 in fees. CUNY has a splendid history of helping innumerable indigent students become leaders in business. Government and professions. But today, with an enrollment of more than 265,000, CUNY costs $595 million a year. The city, which pays 45% of CUNY's budget, has trimmed its payment this...