Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still in their teens and 20s chill out by their 30s and 40s. Life-means-life sentences do a disservice on several fronts. Taxpayers pay ever steeper costs for aging inmates, who require more medical care; wardens are stripped of the ability to motivate these prisoners; and the lifers sink into a hopelessness that can be dangerous...
...cites other bond issues, including those for prisons, transportation, open space, housing and low level radioactive waste. and says, "if and when we add the Megaplex to that, it becomes so heavy that the ship begins to sink...
...disturbing part about this trend is Harvard's collective failure to nip it in the bud; the efforts of Tomassoni and leaders like McCann have yet to sink in. Martins' retaliatory hook to Mike Larkin at the end of the Vermont game (costing the Crimson a chance at a game-winning power-play opportunity) may prove to be the crucial blow in the battle for discipline--if Tomassoni's benching of Martins fails to illustrate to his players the importance of not taking stupid penalties, it's hard to imagine what could. No matter what, Tomassoni's point that...
Last Tuesday night, someone wrote "Hi" in a bathroom sink with letters made of feces...
...They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing fire. You look around you, and every single person in the crowd perceives it ironically. Every single person in the show perceives it ironically. It seems like everybody in Vegas nowadays...