Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killings. Police link 60 percent of all homicides to the drug trade. Barry cannot be effective in fighting drugs if he uses them, or if most people believe he is using them. In a city with scores of open-air drug markets, a mayor tainted by drugs is a sure formula for a booming narcotics business...
...sure happy we stuck with what we had," said Bengals owner Paul Brown, who won four NFL titles as coach of the Cleveland Browns in the 1950s and 1960s...
...sure as the Sooners seemed of their own virtue, they must have had a few inklings of mischief. In the pages of his memoirs, flamboyant linebacker Brian Bosworth, class of '86, is pictured astride a white Corvette above a caption that reads, "Here I am at my $100-per-half-day college job watching an oil rig go up and down . . . and no heavy lifting." A more recent alumnus, Philadelphia Eagles rookie Keith Jackson, thought he was defending the program when he testified, "If a guy, an alumni, comes to you and offers you money, you're going to take...
...sure, there are also plenty of self-serving reasons to serve: glamour seeking, resume padding and networking. "There is usually an opening in your life when you decide to volunteer," says Core Trowbridge, 26, volunteer coordinator for TreePeople in Los Angeles. "Young people come here, treating this as a singles' scene. Old people who've retired but not run out of energy come." But when researchers inquire further into motives, the most common reason cited is a desire to do something useful. To comfort a child, succor a patient, rescue a school or salvage a neighborhood gives volunteers a sense...
...prosecutors became so dissatisfied with the bureau's lethargic performance in voting-rights cases that they concocted "coaching" memos that spelled out exactly which questions should be asked of exactly which witness in civil rights investigations. Only by boxing in the agents in that way could the lawyers be sure the FBI would gather the evidence needed to file discrimination suits...