Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitment to democracy today is not an option," he said. "It is a fundamental imperative...
...fact is, today's smokers, especially heavy smokers, know that smoking is bad for them, but that knowledge doesn't usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...
...they'll answer with a raspy voice, "I'm too old to quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take up smoking, is just as tragic and common. So when Philip Morris advertises that "cigarette smoking is addictive, as that term is most commonly used today. It can be very difficult to quit smoking, but this should not deter smokers who want to quit from trying to do so," it really doesn't tell anyone anything new, nor does it really risk losing much of its clientele...
...cited fiscal problems as a reason why this still plagues law students today, explaining how a mountain of debt after college and law school leaves students unable to pursue loftier goals...
...many of today's law school graduates, he said, enter corporate law instead of public interest work, resulting in an unnatural concentration of power in the hands of large corporations...