Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However debatable their effectiveness in practice, concealed-carry laws appeal to citizens grown skittish over lethal violence--if only because measures to restrict access to weapons don't seem to have ended the bloodbaths. Last month the Missouri legislature put a concealed-carry referendum on next April's ballot, and lawmakers in Michigan are scheduled to vote on a similar measure soon. "Carrying a gun does not guarantee you won't get hurt," says Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a Texas legislator who crusaded for her state's law, "but it changes the odds." Many Americans will take them...
...Bunting Institute provides office space and access to University resources to "women in fields in which they continue to be undervalued and underrepresented," according to Radcliffe's statement...
...secreted himself and a few trusted aides in a $15 billion fortified bunker deep beneath Central Park, defended by a corps of specially trained killer moles, which can spot and, with their frighteningly large incisors, quickly disembowel any enemies of the city attempting to infiltrate the deliberately darkened access tunnel. Fact: The mayor has sensibly proposed building an emergency control center for merely $15 million in the World Trade Center. Should any danger--be it a raid by crazed fundamentalist bioterrorists, a stock-market crash or a strike of rollerblading dog walkers--threaten New York, the mayor would inch through...
...addition to statistics about the number of unique visitors to Harvard's Web site, RelevantKnowledge obtained information about the demographics of the visitors concerning age, gender, houselhold size, region, place of access, education and professional status, Ward said...
...only one political party in the world's most populous country. Still, the recent shift from having local government officials elected rather than appointed by the party, and the reduction of their powers, is a step in a democratic direction. "Party functionaries no longer control a family's access to rice or sugar or fertilizer, and that leads to greater freedom in other areas," says TIME correspondent Jay Branegan. "If you don't need the local party leader in order to have your grain, you don't have to toe the line as much...