Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better is one of physiology. When we look down, our eyes seem to close and our chins drop--incidentally, the same pose as a sleeper. Also, since craning one's neck upwards is uncomfortable, professors usually just look at the first few rows in rooms that have a steep slope (and I don't mean the grading curve). On the other hand, if the professor is on a raised stage, it's obvious who's sleeping and who's not. It's about impossible to sleep with you neck raised upwards, and even if you could your eyes would...
...daughter. In the barn, though, a gaggle of orphaned goslings is beginning to hatch, and we all know what that means: the geese are in for some kind of trouble, father and daughter are in for some kind of bonding, and we're in for another trip down a slope--slippery with sentimental goo--that is all too familiar. And banal...
...Because those who make explosives fear lawsuits from bombing victims. And because the National Rifle Association believes any government intrusion will lead down the slippery slope to more gun control. The N.R.A. doesn't say that, of course. Its opposition is couched in terms of safety. Taggants, it says, can destabilize gunpowder, a claim the Swiss experience disproves. But the N.R.A.'s political power is legendary. To support its view, since 1980 the N.R.A. has used a single test by Congress's former Office of Technology Assessment, which found that taggants could cause "increased reactivity" with at least one form...
...limited parents with diapers, clothing and food. Over 300,000 children of legal immigrants will become ineligible for benefits immediately. "Many of those on the right privately admit [their] real goal is to end federal spending on welfare entirely and that this is the first step on that slippery slope," wrote David T. Ellwood '75, Weiner professor of social policy at the Kennedy School. Whatever their goal, it's not helping Americans...
...problem here is not the slippery slope. It is not that if society allows gay marriage, society will then allow polygamy or incest. It won't. The people won't allow polygamy or incest. Even the gay-marriage advocates won't allow...