Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statistics suggesting that the war on narcotics on the streets of U.S. cities shows promise of being won. What is not possible is to get a single law-enforcement officer to believe it. Instead, all over the country, lawmen wail that their best efforts are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of drug traffic. "You can't say anything is working," admits Jim Goudy, commander of the Houston police narcotics division. In Boston, Deputy Superintendent William Celester concedes that raids on crack dens by newly organized police "impact teams" have accomplished little more than pushing the sites from one location...
...hard to say precisely why drugs are this year's public bane, just as it is hard to know why other threats that are ever present -- from nuclear holocaust to world hunger to environmental disaster -- seem to obsess the national consciousness in cycles. Perhaps it is the sheer insidiousness of crack, the newly popular, highly potent form of cocaine that can in short order transform the casual pleasure seeker into an addict. Perhaps it is the perception that drugs have spread into the workplace and the neighborhood, that they have arrived like the wolf at the door, or at least...
...tones give a second life to black-and-white cliches -- what better than a heated format for rewarming old chestnuts? But color also has special advantages for dealing in deadpan ironies. Even before the eye takes in the subjects of Mary Ellen Mark's photo essay on Miami, the sheer chromatic punch says that Florida is a great setting for the human comedy. The lemony sunlight, the all too scrumptious blue of the sky: even the elements are in on the joke. And surprise, they make a perfect foil for the elderly locals, who strut with a vehemence that...
...modern jobs require more and more knowledge to be executed adequately and the "sheer amount of information to be learned" increases rapidly, the performance of America's institutions of higher learning gains a special importance in determing the U.S.'s standing in the world...
Jamie S. Gorelick '72, a member of the small firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin, said the sheer size of the nation's most venerated firms prevented their members from sharing political and moral goals and discouraged cooperation. She said this characteristic undermined the principle that bans law firms from representing two clients with conflicting interests, and discouraged unpaid public-interest work...