Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearts or atom bombs, continually outruns both ethical standards and public policy in two ways. The sometimes inconceivable new power of scientific advances that give us the ability to tinker with DNA, to replace a defective heart, disrupts the ethical standards we use to judge those powers. Secondly, the sheer speed at which science forces issues upon us outstrips ethical standards. Rapid technological change leaves little time to assess consequences; we cannot know what is at stake, because science carves out new territory faster than we can discover the hidden problems. Consequently, the issues force the public to take extreme...
...lifers' first task, then, is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. Complete mandatory programs of sex education and readily available birth control would go a long way toward achieving this end. Too many pregnancies result from sheer ignorance. If more teenagers were taught how to use contraceptives properly, fewer of them would fail to use them. If more teenagers were completely informed about the realities of abortion, fewer would regard it as an easy alternative. And if more teenagers were taught not merely how babies are made, but what the responsibilities of baby-making are, more would be able...
...plantations in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. (The previous record drug bust took place in 1978, when 570 tons of marijuana were seized in Colombia.) In the U.S., the Mexican pot would have had a street value of about $4 billion, according to Mexican judicial officials. The sheer volume may prompt a reassessment of drug traffic...
...that I ever had. It even had a vest." To listen to an old senile relative ramble on like this would be considered an act of charity almost above and beyond the call of duty, but to buy a book full of these uninteresting memories from a stranger is sheer lunacy. They are written as simply and as poorly as first-grade primers: Rooney admits. "I dislike retyping a piece to correct mistakes or rearrange paragraphs...
...phrase "L. H. O. O. Q." under it--was roundly criticized for its irreverence. The phrase, roughly translated, means "she has a hot ass." The Dadas also sponsored "readings" which consisted of random gunshots or the din of a sledgehammer pounding on sheetmetal. The aim of this group, beyond sheer insanity, was to destroy the foundations of what makes art, and thereby to undermine one aspect of a society they saw as inherently evil. Their irreverence and vulgarity sprang from the same ethos that the punks' did--a conviction that anything at all is better than what we have...