Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curricula would be a long-term solution to increasingly pressing social problems. Granted, any exercise in social engineering carries with it certain risks and costs. But the alternative solutions to today's teen problems, which emphasize the inculcation of morality and responsibility, rely on abstractions that are even less subject to human control and, in any case, do not deal directly with the issues at hand...
...appeared in the Wall Street Journal last year, Congress is investigating medical tests with an eye to improving federal control. Within a few months, lawmakers will consider legislation, recommended by the Centers for Disease Control, to set up uniform proficiency standards for laboratories. At Senate subcommittee hearings on the subject last month, Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan declared, "Faulty lab procedures can have devastating consequences for the unsuspecting...
...primary season that has lacked emotional issues, drugs is the one subject thus far that seems to touch the voters directly, viscerally. Unlike the national debt and the trade deficit, it is neither abstruse nor abstract. It is a backyard issue. It is also one with wide appeal: it allows a candidate to sound tough in both domestic and foreign affairs while arousing passions among all economic groups, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the manicured lawns of Westchester County. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that Americans believed, 3 to 1, that fighting...
...drug issue is -- and has been -- the strongest, the most reassuring, the most universally appealing part of his populist message, the theme that seems to take some of the sting out of his radicalism. He speaks more convincingly, more plainly about drugs than about any other subject. No other candidate comes close to the reaction Jackson gets when he calls out "Down with dope. Up with hope." None can match his personal urgency. As the other candidates have incorporated an antidrug theme into their campaigns, Jackson has mocked them for stealing his drug message. His rivals, he says...
Brune labeled himself and Vellucci as reformers and said Howe was allied with an old guard of Somerville politicians responsible for corruption in City Hall. "I think some of the people she supported have been the subject of criminal investigations," Brune said...