Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slow motion, and right prevails if you own "the most powerful handgun in the world." I doubt that any of this nonsense causes violence, but after decades of repetition, it does invoke boredom. And while I can't prove it, I would bet that gun-violence entertainment will soon pass too, because people have had too much of it and because it is patently false...
...Leigh DeMoss that lists the gay-rights movement, abortion and "our humanistic, secular public school system" as proof that "Americans have lost their way in part because they do not know their own Christian heritage." Given that philosophy, critics look with skepticism on the foundation's promise not to pass along the Power mailing list. Moreover, says Alfred Ross, head of the Institute for Democracy Studies, "they don't need to pass it on. They are the religious right...
...environmental bills: increased funding for research on energy sources other than fossil fuels; incentives to encourage industries to cut emissions; efforts to clean up power plants; and measures to raise fuel-efficiency standards for gas-slurping SUVs, vans and light trucks. Just about the only measure likely to pass is, of all things, an order requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to give equal time to dissenting views whenever it conducts educational programs on climate. Congress, says Environmental Defense Fund lobbyist Steve Cochran, has become "completely dysfunctional" on global warming...
...over this again: it is normal, perhaps even to be expected, that when a crowd the size of the City of Rochester, N.Y., is assembled in an unshaded field and is overcharged, peddled drugs and hosed down with vehemently moronic music, then something like a riot may come to pass. Garbage in, garbage...
...country?s top 50 cities all pass the "voice" test, but the scramble to expand is likely to be most feverish in major sports markets like New York, L.A. and Chicago ?- sports is a particularly cost-effective way to fill airtime. Or conglomerates with big movie libraries may decide that a mix of film and reruns may be the way to go. But who gets bought? One guy with plenty of prime real estate is Lowell Paxson, whose fledgling family-based Pax network has stations in 43 of the top 50 markets but isn?t now passing bottom-line muster...