Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeat: the mere fact that getting high on marijuana brings pleasure to the vast majority of its adult users is not sufficient reason to legalize it. The majority of people probably could drive safely at 75 or 80 m.p.h., but we can't custom-make the rules for each individual and it's the minority at greatest risk we have to worry about. If a significant minority cannot use marijuana safely, if grass frequently leads to more dangerous drugs, if it has dangerous long-term side effects of its own, if the problems of keeping it from children are insurmountable...
...wasn't that the article had been overwhelmingly negative, but the team--which I'd covered for two years--had been losing, no chance for a repeat appearance in the NCAAs or even an Ivy League title...
...especially in an election year. But Greenspan can probably muster the necessary determination if he thinks back to the early 1980s, when inflation got completely out of control and it took 20% interest rates to halt the price spiral. No one -- Republican or Democrat -- wants to experience a repeat of that episode...
...soft on terrorism, Mitterrand flared up at Chirac, "This is not fury on my part, this is indignation." After the President charged the Premier with engineering the release of a proven terrorist in a deal with Tehran, Chirac angrily demanded that Mitterrand "look me in the eye" and repeat his allegations...
...their rights, the inmates have gained free passage within the cellblocks and have pressured authorities to let visitors bring food and other goods. But the rebels believe the only reason the government allows them to operate this way is to provide a pretext to kill them all, in a repeat of the massacres that occurred when authorities put down Sendero uprisings in three penitentiaries in 1986. More than 250 rebels died in the incidents. Those fears were fanned last Easter, when, according to prisoners, paramilitary troops attacked the men's pavilion at Canto Grande with fire bombs and heavy weapons...