Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everything to date has been working just according to our schedule, which is rare," he added...
Although a final verdict must await further studies, most researchers now believe that aside from rare bad trips by novice smokers, marijuana is hazardous only for chronic heavy users-people who get stoned nearly every day. They risk becoming psychologically dependent on pot and damaging their lungs with the tar in marijuana smoke. But light or occasional use of marijuana-once or twice a week -usually produces only a pleasant high, no more dangerous than mild intoxication from alcohol. Of course, pot like alcohol affects users' judgment and reflexes, so it can lead to accidents if people drive...
Some of the Laurentian material in this new novel, notably Saville's unsatisfactory love affair, conveys a rare sense of place and emotion. Yet the impression remains strong that Storey, himself a miner's son, is unable to put enough distance between author and subject. His anger does not shake itself clear, and, like the hero, the novel's impressive strength never quite finds its direction. Skow
...quite yet. The six-nation International Cricket Conference (ICC)* was still battling to ward off Communications Tycoon Kerry Packer, 39, who lured away the game's brightest lights with promises of filthy lucre. That is a rare commodity in cricket, where even playing for England, a superstar can aspire to no more than $35,000 a year and a run-of-the-mill professional only $6,600 a season. Packer offered far better salaries and planned a televised international all-star series matching "the rest of the world" against a formidable Australian side...
Such slips are rare. The Goat, the Wolf, and the Crab raises troubling questions about the worth of inherited values; it engages the mind as well as the emo tions. The line between this novel and a three-handkerchief tearjerker is the hard edge of truth...