Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plates, a leftover from Soviet days, which allow cops to identify both the nationality and profession of foreign car owners. More likely than not, the traffic cops say, the roadchecks will continue. So far, the Russian media, which has widely depicted the Manhattan run-in as typical of strong-arm tactics favored by American police, has welcomed the GAI move heartily. Using language reminiscent of the Cold War era, according to TIME's Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier, even the liberal national daily Sevodnya moralized Friday that "there is an ideology of double standards especially evident with the Americans.What they consider...
...Venus. The true story of a 19th century Hottentot woman shipped from Africa to England and displayed as a freak was turned into a chilly but gripping play by Suzan-Lori Parks. The social commentary was kept at arm's length by her neo-Brechtian stylization; director Richard Foreman's deep-space staging (at New York City's Public Theater) made it haunting...
...Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), the computer support arm of FAS, had the system operating again...
Every time I get the urge to complain about some aspect of life at Harvard, I make myself pause and think, "There are people in the world who would give their left arm to be in your shoes." After about a minute, though, that feeling usually passes, and I continue on to bitch...
...commissioner flexed some muscle. He ordered thousands of gallons of orange juice seized from grocery shelves because they were labeled "fresh" but made from concentrate. This was a bold, some said outrageous, move; the difference between fresh and concentrated orange juice is not life-threatening, so why the strong-arm tactics? But everyone involved in the manufacture of the annual $1 trillion worth of products subject to FDA approval got the message: the watchdog had new teeth...