Word: 90s
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...know the streets and the personalities in them, to convince potential felons to put down their guns. "One of the things we recognized is that you can't arrest your way out of gang type situations," says Police Superintendant Paul Joyce, who ran Boston's program into the mid-'90s. "We implemented the strategy of emphasizing to kids that we didn't want to toss them in jail, but that violence would not be tolerated." The city had a record 152 homicides in 1990, just before it implemented Scrap Iron in a targeted area rife with killings. The next year...
...cheap? Sure. The current ratio there is 14.6, significantly below where it's been over the past 15 years (19.3). But that average has been influenced by the go-go years. Exclude them - by looking at just the 1990s, say - and the result isn't so clear-cut. The '90s-only ratio, 13.9, indicates that renting is still a slightly favorable option...
...young to care about baseball before the strike in 1994, my earliest memories come from the record-breaking power surge of the late ’90s. Like every fan my age and older, I remember the summer of 1998 for the moments spent scurrying to the nearest TV whenever Sosa or McGwire threatened the records of Ruth and Maris. That summer’s hardball fireworks happened to coincide with a brief hiccup that served as nothing more than a semicolon in a decade-long, run-on sentence of previously unimaginable financial growth. As I was 10 years...
...Today, McGwire and Sosa are personae non gratae in Cooperstown, and 1998 stands as a glaring reminder of what now appears so obvious: that the good times of the late ’90s were built on something other than Big Mac’s hard-scrabble midwestern work ethic or the Caribbean, Garcia-Marquez-esque, mythical mastery of Slammin’ Sammy. Rather, they were fueled by a toxic cocktail of steroids and willful ignorance...
...Couture is a pioneer of his sport, an MMA legend who helped take the sport mainstream. Before joining the UFC in the late '90s, he spent six years in the Army, and was an assistant wrestling coach at Oregon State University. Somehow, he seems to be getting better with age. Couture reclaimed a heavyweight championship after coming out of yearlong retirement in 2007, though he lost his last fight, in November, to current UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar. He's broken an arm, his nose, and suffered an orbital fracture in previous fights, but swears he's pain-free...