Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how good the system is, there will always be those who fall through the cracks. This danger is heightened infinitely due to the irrevocability of the act. Under the death penalty, not only are innocents sometimes convicted, but it is extremely difficult to enforce a universal standard for those who are rightly convicted. Life without parole--a severe punishment which still recognizes human fallibility--is a more just alternative...
...They do care," Vladek said. "They are just a little too concerned with the economics of the situation. They don't appreciate how important it is to have an enforceable standard...
With the thing in place only three days before the big game, I went to work trying to get a high-definition signal. I got none. No Miami stations have started broadcasting in HD yet and the cable-TV industry hasn't even settled on a standard. My satellite dish wasn't any help, either. DirecTV shows one channel of HDTV, but nobody sells a decoder that can tune it in. Aaargh...
Super Sunday scored big with my friends and neighbors anyway. Even without HDTV, the gridiron never looked better--thanks to the jumbo screen and a hidden upgrade that effectively doubles the standard analog screen resolution. The casual consensus: the best TV picture they had ever seen...
...enough for this self-absorbed wretch to defile the nation's highest office. Now he's dragging his whole party into the muck. And amazingly, Democrats are buying into the Big Creep's definition of victory: three-quarters of the country believe he is untrustworthy and lacking ethical standards, and they're popping corks. Party leaders are united in defense of this man--their guiding principles of moral and legal relativity have been elevated to an art form (one standard for liberal Presidents, another for everyone else). The politics of personal destruction that they invented (with attacks on Robert Bork...