Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strong fan support has been a rare sight at Bright and the players recognized that, raising their sticks to the crowd after each game...
TIME should be commended for providing us with rare insight into the mind of a killer [NATION, Oct. 18]. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is an unrepentant murderer who deserves the life sentence that was given to him. Perhaps being in prison for the rest of his life will make the Unabomber finally realize the pain and agony he has inflicted. MIGUEL NOE DEJESUS RODRIGUEZ Chicago...
...been able to know back then that what I had just caught was one of the last stragglers of a vanishing species--that within 35 years a 247-lb. Atlantic broadbill swordfish would be as rare as a tyrannosaur--I would have set it free, administered CPR or, if all attempts at resuscitation had failed, I would at least have had the carcass of the mighty fish gilded and sent to the Smithsonian...
Still, the days of abundance are gone. The image of cheap and wholesome seafood available to everyone is fading into memory and myth. Already a single tuna can cost more than most automobiles. Soon some oysters may be as rare and costly as pearls...
...extremely rare procedure is used to terminate a pregnancy in its last stages, usually if the mother's health is endangered. The President vetoed the ban on the procedure precisely because it did not include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is a dangerous and delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed...