Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must have enormous patience to experiment with explosives and triggers and not blow his fingers off. "When you see this stuff, some of these components bear markings of having been put together and taken apart repeatedly," said Chris Ronay, the FBI's top bomb expert in the 1980s. "It's not just that he's creating something carefully. He's played with it for a while. He marks things with numbers so he can put them together again right. He's leaving a little of himself at each crime scene...
...then, were their associates? One key to the answer, Jones thinks, is a white supremacist named Richard Wayne Snell. On the evening of the Oklahoma bombing, Snell was executed in Arkansas for the 1983 killing of a pawnbroker he mistakenly believed to be Jewish. In the early 1980s Snell and some associates conspired to blow up the Murrah building. His last words before his death were, "Look over your shoulder; justice is coming." Aha! says Jones. "Why would Snell think that unless he knew? One hypothesis is that a group of people decided to give the old man a going...
...point is, Harvard could be playing a heck of a lot better. Yes, the team is not as dominant as the 1992 squad or any from the late 1980s. But the Crimson does have potential to do a lot better than it's doing...
According to Maura Barrios, who hired Orren's assistants at the Kennedy School during the late 1980s, four staff assistants who were subjected to Orren's behavior between 1986 and 1989 got together in 1989 and brought the issues to administrative attention...
...studies. Experts had long considered sources for the Gospels undreamed of by Luther: passages from Luke and Matthew, for instance, that did not reflect the earlier written Mark but corresponded to one another were ascribed to a document known as Q, a bare-bones collection of sayings. In the 1980s, radicals took a large step farther. They suggested that only Q and similarly minimalist early documents, real and notional, might constitute authentic reporting; the rest of the Gospels was mostly tacked-on religious revisionism...