Word: soberness
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Maybe it was just the Olympics." Incidentally, it was in relation to hockey that the subject of drugs made one of its few appearances in the Games. A sober entry in one of the official daily bulletins: "A new problem, which has arisen in connection with doping control, is under discussion...
...decent respect for human life requires a serious, sober response to the news of his death. It is at once strange and sad that many of those conjuring up images of Big Brother display the very lack of humanity, of human sensitivity, that they so readily inveigh against...
...sober, dutiful son of Armenian immigrants, Deukmejian began his career as an attorney in Long Beach, grappling his way up in law and politics by means of single-minded hard work more than personality or connections. As state attorney general, Deukmejian proved a tough law-and-order foil to liberal Governor Jerry Brown, pushing hard for California's death penalty. Before then, Deukmejian had served 16 years as a representative in both the state assembly and senate. Married and with three children, Deukmejian is unabashedly square in his habits and style. Weekends, he commutes to his family home...
...proposed by the commission over the next five years for Central America seems like an exorbitant sum. Surely Congress and the President will work to pare that figure down in the future. For now, Americans must discard the notion that shooting will bring peace to the region and sober up to the reality that there is no flight from commitment from Central America. The cost in humanitarian and strategic terms is too great...
...always, growing in intensity throughout the year, came the horrifying pictures of the apocalypse that war in the nuclear age would mean. Astronomer Carl Sagan and Biologist Paul Ehrlich warned a sober scientific