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Word: america (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more like SWAT reservists, training together once in a while and spending the rest of their days minding what is often a sleepy suburban community -- until terror flares. They do their best; certainly the team that waded into hell last Tuesday saved hundreds of young lives. Can all of America's cops be ready for the worst to happen at any time? Probably not. But Shannon thinks if the apparent epidemic of school violence is to be addressed in terms of containment, readiness across the country must be ratcheted up. "There needs to be more planning, more training for everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWAT Team Finds Itself in a Sore Spot | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...shocking reminders of this pressing social problem at Harvard and definitely in the world beyond. In the time you have taken to read this column, 12 women will have been victims of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from husbands, boyfriends and lovers--every 15 seconds a woman in America becomes a victim of domestic violence, according to a panelist at a Tuesday night TBTN panel...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond Domestic Violence: Taking Back Night and Day | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...there's a restaurant near Fort Lee, N.J. with my name. I've never actually been there myself, but a friend handed me an advertising card. "Fine Japanese Cuisine...Sugi features Six Tatami Rooms accommodating up to 20 people." What? There are at least 100 Sugi's on America Online. Sugi.net is a Web site. I hope to buy sugi.org upon graduation. Or maybe ganeshananthan.com. I'm torn. I'm pretty sure no one would ever make it to ganeshananthan.com because they'd forget that pesky second-to-last...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Endpaper: It's All in a Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Schneider plans to investigate the significance of pilgrimages in Spain and Central America...

Author: By Erica C. Hutchins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seven Seniors Receive Traveling Fellowships | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...decision by one its members formally drop its college' title has "brought into focus," in the words of one member, the future of single-sex education in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Sisters? | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

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