Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is, it is a constant problem for us too. It is not as though we are not aware of how hard it is to keep your work going," Vendler says. "If someone can't keep their work going when they are doing lesser service then they won't be able to do it later. There is some quality you are looking for of an ability to package your time...
...second, less prominent set of difficulties may not become visible for another 10 to 20 years after college. Excessive drinking may continue after the college years and result in serious health or social problems. "Patterns that are not really problematic now may become problematic later because of the constant use of alcohol," Matano says...
...prepared for long drives. Organizers line up the carloads to be given maps as they peel off out of the lot. Taut nerves make the leaders snappish as they scurry about, pausing in little clots of prayer, then bustling to their tasks. Their language is semimilitary, befitting such constant readers of the Book of Exodus. These are churchgoing, middle-class couples, uneasy in the shabby clothes they have put on for prison service later in the day. Not the demonstrators of civil rights or antiwar protests, these are a new breed: "Bible Christians" increasingly determined to restore their country...
Above all, abortion activists predict that the struggle could lead to a seismic shift in American politics, becoming a constant factor in nearly every election and threatening to fracture both parties. Like civil rights and the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...
...incredibly satsifying bass drum. Particularly effective, too, are a series of abrupt changes in volume. But just when everything is going well, Jackson screws up the chorus, bigtime in that it destroys the mood of everything that precedes it. The entire listening experience is marred by the constant fear that the chorus is going to come back and interrupt the rest of the song...