Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away: the distinctive "pressure patterns," "wear points" and the "triangle" between...
...those turnabouts that create strange political bedfellows, the Senate minority leader and other Republicans have begun meeting on a regular basis with the President. Snubbed by many Democrats, Carter needs all the support he can get in Congress and thus welcomes the Republican advice. The Republicans, on the other hand, are worried that Carter may continue to stumble so badly that he will be denied the nomination. The G.O.P. leaders do not want this to happen because they figure Carter would be the easiest candidate to beat...
...part of their income but demand the rest in unreported cash, usually in convenient large-denomination bills. One sign of this trend is the fast rise in the number of $100 bills in circulation -some 382 million today vs. 267 million only three years ago. In addition to his regular job as a mechanic, Mike does bodywork on damaged autos in San Francisco for cash on the cylinder head and pockets $100 to $200 a month in undeclared income. Bob, a Santa Cruz, Calif bartender, declares his $5 hourly wage but not his $100 weekly take in tips...
...regular golf game with an Alliance lawyer ended when he had to rule on a close case in his friend's favor...
...course requirements last year included regular attendance at section meetings, the submission of five-out-of-11 problem sets based on the tools learned each week, a 20- to 30-page analysis of a specific international conflict and a five-page synthesis of this longer paper...