Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more substantial jurist might have better withstood the slow drip of corrosive revelations about his earlier life. But so little was known about Ginsburg that it was easy for minor matters to grow into major questions about his fitness to serve. His admission that he smoked pot should not have been an automatic disqualification. If it were, the ranks of Government might be devastated. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has reported that more than 23% of the adult population has used marijuana, including a staggering 64% of those ages 18 to 25. Indeed, two Democratic presidential candidates, Albert Gore...
...celebrate their radically new "at least he wasn't an addict" philosophy, the Reagans hosted a pot party at the White House. They greeted the press in tie-dyed shirts and peace-sign necklaces...
...cause for glee among those long ago deadened to the hypocrisy of the Reagan Administration and its leader. This is an Administration whose Justice Department has had a long-standing policy against hiring in any law-enforcement capacity anyone who admits on their job application to ever having tried pot. Which perhaps explains why when the ambitious Ginsburg was asked the $64,000 question when filling out application forms for earlier Justice Department posts, he just said...
...back, and it still wouldn't make a dent on the budget. The reason is that the endowment pays out a set rate more than it has paid out the previous year, regardless of how much it has grown in the meantime. Excess gains are reinvested, and the pot grows bigger...
Even in Daley's time there was powersharing between different ethnic groups--the Irish, Italians, Slavs, Poles and Jews. Now that Blacks have joined that group of powerful voting ethnic groups there is an opportunity to over-come national race divisions in America's great melting pot--the city...