Word: shredding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These students proposed different theories that explain the lack of romance at Harvard, which I shall now present objectively without any shred of bias...
Without offering a shred of evidence, the author proceeds to attack psychiatrists as "oddballs, Christ beards and psychotics" who were "exceptionally lonely and unhappy, socially ostracized at school and abused at home, either psychologically or physically." The article would make decent toilet reading if it didn't pretend to be nonfiction...
...books on drugs: "I have come to the view that humans have a need -- perhaps even a drive -- to alter their state of consciousness from time to time." Pioneer drug researcher Dr. Andrew Weil of the University of Arizona College of Medicine confirms that view: "There is not a shred of hope from history or from cross-cultural studies to suggest that human beings can live without psychoactive substances...
...sprung up in the U.S., and they have been responsible for more than 5,000 births. The surging demand stems from the high incidence of infertility: about 1 married couple in 12 has not been able to conceive a child despite a year of trying. IVF dangles one last shred of hope before some of these 2.4 million couples...
...went into his office and began to change the records, shred the records, destroy the records," Keker told jurors. Two days later, when he lied to then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III, "he had placed himself above the law again...