Oddly enough, the rush to criminalize synthetic marijuana and other synthetic drugs comes at a time when public opinion is dramatically shifting in favor of decriminalizing, and even legally regulating, marijuana.

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In the fifteen-eighties, Galileo studied at the University of Pisa, where he absorbed the Aristotelian orthodoxy of his time one as synthetic as most orthodoxy is.

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At the same time, issuers command lower coupons on synthetic yuan bonds than dollar bonds, pocketing the difference, though they forego any gains on renminbi appreciation.

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He said they joked that they planned to down a shot of liquor every time the CEO used the word "synthetic, " a reference to the type of collateralized-debt obligation for which Goldman has been accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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At the time, he had thought he might make synthetic dyes with them.

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In 1959 they spotted another opportunity to make synthetic glue to replace the natural glue that carpenters were using at the time.

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The win also meant that one of Milan and Inter, who share the San Siro, had finally won a game -- at the tenth time of asking -- after the installation of a new partially-synthetic pitch over the summer.

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At the time our son David died in June 2010 after smoking K2, virtually no one had heard of this synthetic drug.

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