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Word: ammo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells a different story. Wounded in the library, he waited until the killers moved on, and then he fled outside to safety. Evan, who is familiar with guns, says he immediately briefed a dozen police officers. "I described it all to them--the guns they were using, the ammo. I told them they could save lives [of the wounded still in the library if they moved in right away]. They told me to calm down and take my frustrations elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Columbine Tapes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...long lines and inaction. (Try "Renaissance Man," filmed here, if you can stand it.) On Wednesday we got to be in the Army - we got to go on a road march. All rigged up with helmets, rucksacks and LCES (a suspenders-and-a-half getup for canteens and ammo), we hit Fort Jackson's well-worn trails and saw South Carolina's scrubby pine-and-sand version of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...that it only makes sense to take some action." One step for Congress: ratifying the emissions-control standards of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty. The measure has been stalled there ever since President Clinton signed it two years ago; the news from up north could be one more bit of ammo for proponents. And with scientists expecting the temperature to grow another 3.5 degrees over the next century, Congressional opponents could find their arguments on thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming — or Just the Ice Cycle? | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

Critics will be looking for signs of her influence as the Commander in Chief considers the plight of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig says the live-ammo range there is "an important and irreplaceable site," vital to assuring Navy and Marine combat effectiveness. But after two stray 500-lb. bombs killed a security guard and injured four other civilians last April, the island's 9,300 residents declared that they had had enough. Nowhere have they found more sympathy than in New York, a city that has one-quarter the number of Puerto Ricans that Puerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy One, Get One Free? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...details don't matter. There is no excuse, no good reason I am sure no one will understand. If they could I wouldn't want them to... You should kill me if you can." He took care of that himself, but not before arming himself with 200 rounds of ammo and a small collection of guns--a couple of which he had owned for years--and taking nine more people with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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