Word: striken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work that was already due, work that they blew off all day, work that they aren't doing, work that they should be doing because if they don't do it now they surely will fail everything and not get into graduate school and have a horrible poverty-striken life with a pain-in-the-butt spouse and lots of ugly slimy kids whose faces will melt...
...power of destruction. Yet claims of this kind hardly justify the Act before us. Its provisions would go so far as to prohibit research to discover better safety mechanisms for avoiding nuclear accidents, research to improve capabilities for defense that could reduce the temptation to resort to preemptive nuclear striken, and research that might help prevent other nations from gaining a weapons superiority that could have critical destabilizing effects...