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The best available FBI numbers--none of which are much good--suggest that drug crime has neither surged nor receded during the past three years.
Cat ice is a thin layer of ice on a puddle from under which water has receded, so named because it will bear only the weight of a cat, or a catling , a kitten walking over it cat-footed to avoid breaking it.
Lewinsky testified six months later, but by then anger toward the president had receded.
As the empire receded, colonized populations from North and Central Africa, Indochina, and elsewhere began to move to France and alter the French identity once more.
The once densely forested fells and valleys were a safe and bountiful territory for prehistoric hunter-gatherers, and later, around 2500 b.c. , after the forests had receded due to changes in weather patterns, settlers used the clearings in the lowlands for small-scale farming.