Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council has been told that Dean Jewettreally doesn't want us to make a decision soquickly," Daniel H. Tabak '92 said. "This iscertainly the most important thing the residentialcommittee will be doing this year, and I think weshould get it done right rather than get it donequickly...
...basically was a real good-government thing," says Paige E. Bigelow of the Institute of Public Administration. "It basically meant that every person's vote really did count--that every member of the electorate had a person whom they really did vote...
...worst thing anybody could do in the abortion issue is to waffle," he says...
...seemed a small thing, hardly ground for arrest. For two weeks a tiny group of Bulgarian environmentalists called Ecoglasnost manned a table in a Sofia park to gather signatures on a petition calling for public debate on two controversial river-diversion schemes. They had collected nearly 7,000 names, when police and militia units suddenly swooped down, scattered bystanders and arrested seven of the organizers...
...problem, of course, is that a case-by-case approach can easily create inconsistencies. For one thing, legislatures are not always careful to calibrate each offense according to its severity; this can lead to situations in which an armed assault can draw the same penalty, say 15 years, as a simple robbery. In recent years, moreover, disparities in the punishments prescribed for various crimes have been exaggerated by legislators' tendency to enact mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for drug crimes...