Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hagan was spared the death penalty: California does not allow * capital punishment unless a first-degree murder involves other circumstances as well. Hagan seemed unconcerned about his sentence. "One day I'll be back on the streets," he said, "and I'm gonna be hard, hard, hard -- one mean son of a bitch ready for action...
...Statistics don't mean a thing," Getman commented. "It was pretty even and both teams had plenty of chances...
...American side the situation is viewed as potentially--indeed imminently--catastrophic. The Philippines is of immense strategic importance to the United States, and the loss of a viable centrist position there will mean the worsening of the 17-year civil war, with little hope for positive resolution. Some have suggested a massive influx of emergency funds to bolster Aquino's sagging position, including both military and economic...
Republicans do not deny the need for additional funds; the Reagan Administration, which has reduced the Federal Government's share of all educational outlays, is getting set to propose an increase. But the G.O.P. adds a qualification stressed early by Vice President George Bush: more dollars do not necessarily mean better schools. Indeed, Bennett insists that one source of popular dismay is precisely the belief that the public is not getting its money's worth out of the cash already being showered on schools -- a record $308 billion this year in federal, state, local and private spending. To improve teaching...
...that deal with a variety of obstacles to abortion that the states have constructed. Therefore, what the court would do, rather than say, 'We abandon Roe v. Wade,' is to allow increasing leeway to states to regulate the parameters of the right to an abortion." More regulation would undoubtedly mean fewer abortions...