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Word: repeatability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best we can hope for is that the responsibilities of the three associate deans will be clearly delineated and that they will make a concerted effort to act as real student advocates. Ambition, drive and thirst for knowledge is all well and good. But no one--we repeat no one--should feel forced to study on a Friday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Student's Dean | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...even some older, repeat offenders are getting punishments that seem ridiculously disproportionate to their crimes. Consider Douglas Gray, a husband, father, Vietnam veteran and owner of a roofing business who bought a pound of marijuana in an Alabama motel for $900 several years ago. The seller turned out to be a police informant, a felon fresh from prison whom cops paid $100 to do the deal. Because Gray had been arrested for several petty crimes 13 years earlier--crimes that didn't even carry a prison sentence--he fell under the state's "habitual offender" statutes. He got life without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Get-Tough Policy That Failed | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

Funny thing about history; it tends to repeat itself...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Upsets No. 6 B.C. | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

...Denver played like they'll repeat as Super Bowl champs," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broncos Buck Dolphins | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...this one, chopping the pages into one-line fragments, then trying to put the fragments back together without a single typo. As daunting as that seems, imagine that up to 30% of the text consists of nearly identical strings of words up to 7,000 letters long. Assembling these "repeat sequences," says the genome project's Francis Collins, is "a challenge to anyone who doesn't break it down into bite-size pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing To Map Our DNA | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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