Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Court in recent years has scaled back the ability of convicts to appeal, and liberals in Congress have tried to restore those rights through legislation. Clinton's point man, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, spent much of last winter working on finding a compromise that both sides could swallow. Under the new bill, an inmate would be limited to one habeas petition after all other appeals have been exhausted and would have to file it within six months of his final state appeal...
...sneak the first assumption post the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Third-year student Andrew Greenblatt describes Moreno's writing as "quick, incisive social commentary--reality sugar-coated with enough humor that you swallow it before you realize what it is, and then it's too late...
...decision, the invasive nature of the procedure, and sometimes an ugly confrontation with right-to- life forces lying in wait outside the clinic door. But imagine if abortion could be a truly private matter. Say, something as easy as visiting a doctor, getting a few pills, returning home to swallow them, then checking back a few days later to make sure that all went as planned...
...main blame for all this lies with Clinton, who treats foreign policy as the spinach he must swallow to enjoy the rest of his job. In early May, when the Serbs refused to follow the U.S. peace script, the President even whined that "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on ((Bosnia)) than is absolutely necessary, because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems...