Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, the shortened shopping period is a logistical nightmare. Last term, undergraduates officially had eight days to test the waters, but classes actually met on only five of those, with many not convening on Friday as well. In addition, those lectures that were held often ran short on space and syllabi, making it impossible for students to receive an adequate impression of the course. Toss in a major Jewish holiday on Wednesday, and the result was pure chaos...
...short, for all its commendable aims, the Bush budget proposal has failed to specify how it will reduce the deficit. He has not proposed any of the most accepted methods of cutting the budget deficit: increasing taxes or cutting Social Security or defense spending. It is not enough for Bush merely to summon the nation to a "mission of goodness and greatness...
Back then I had this unbelievable crush on the girl who sat in front of me in math class, Wendy Hollocher. Wendy had short light brown hair and a button nose with dimples to match. Her figure wasn't especially noticeable, but then again, not many fourth-graders' were...
Every year in the U.S. more than 1,000 children die from physical abuse, but Lisa Steinberg is the one whose name is stamped in the public mind. Though her short, unhappy life of six years was spent in a middle-class Manhattan household, it was in circumstances of stunning callousness and squalor. Joel Steinberg, 47, the disbarred attorney who illegally adopted her, spent days at a time in a cocaine stupor. His live-in companion Hedda Nussbaum, 46, was a former children's book editor with a boxer's dented profile, the result of years of beatings by Steinberg...
...believe there can be a formula for justice stopping short of taking human life that won't be dismissed by politicians as too liberal. There must be a method for treating violent criminals toughly, even harshly, that won't simply be tossed off as too conservative. There can be no forgiveness, no compassion for the criminal who kills. He should face a barren and hopeless life of incarceration. Perhaps the 50 states should, together, build a giant maximum- security prison in the desert. Reinvent Dante's Inferno. Let its inhabitants languish and be forgotten by all Americans. Just...