Word: backs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speedy Bala was the Crimson's best offensive weapon last weekend. In its 3-2 loss Friday to RPI, Bala spent most of the evening motoring down the left wing, and only some sharp work from Engineer goalie Joel Laing kept the puck from the back...
...broke many of the promises to the people of Vieques made in the 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the armed forces and the government of Puerto Rico, such as reducing the amount of live bombs dropped on Vieques. Matos went as far as stating, "It's time to give back Vieques...
...when teens were tolerated, not celebrated. Now, at 46, I am an antiquated adult with a 16-year-old who thinks that I was stupid to be alive during the civil rights movement. And he has the media, insistently telling him how smart the sacred young are, to back him up. GLENDA M. JOHNSON Gautier, Miss...
Even if you totally disagree with Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell's vow to "fight to the death" against a right-wing assault on his city's affirmative-action program, you have to acknowledge his candor. "This is as important to us as our right to vote was back in the '60s," he declares. "African Americans have to be as resolute on this issue as the Jewish community is about aid to Israel." Any "handkerchief-head Negro" who disagrees, he adds, ought to be "shunned...
...leave the union he built and ran for 54 years. He says he bought the weapons for use in strikes. But his critics--most of whom say they are afraid to be quoted by name--tell a different story. They say that Morris, who traces his roots and tactics back to the Molly Maguires, the fierce coal miners who waged violent battles against mineowners in the 1870s, has become increasingly erratic and violent over the past few years. Teamster officials say Morris' men have told them the weapons were being readied to disrupt the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia next...