Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure that demands action on the drug crisis. Yet "responding to public pressure" does not in itself mean that congressmen are cynically using an issue as a tool to win votes. And to snidely proclaim, as the press does, that any congressional action during an election year is inherently mere political pandering makes little sense...
Government courses overwhelmingly emphasize systems, abstract balances of forces and state power, ignoring the impact on the individuals affected by these larger forces. Discussions in history and government classes are often mere studies in violence, as they examine past wars or prospects for nuclear...
...dinner, one could sample a different Bangkok restaurant every night for 30 years and still not exhaust the city's repertoire. Nor are these mere holes-in-the-wall. Many are landscaped garden restaurants with pavilions strung with lights and lotus ponds at their center. Dinner at such a palace will cost perhaps $8 a person. As for postprandial appetites, they are taken care of in a night world as treacherously bewitching as any on earth -- one winking neon blur of bars and discos and imperial, four-story massage parlors...
Last year, the Crimson finished the regular season with a 15-9 record (3-4 Ivy), but the squad came together at the tourney, winning three out of five matches. That was good enough for third place, a mere two points away from making the finals...
...with the Democrats in the one state that can proudly say it voted for George McGovern in 1972. The most recent figures available from the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth show that 46.4 percent of registered voters in Massachusetts are Democrats, 40.1 percent are independents, and a mere 13.5 percent are registered Republicans...