Word: bashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heavy peer pressure is just one factor. Contact sports may be inherently violent, but, notes Harvard's Dr. Lawrence Hartmann, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, "sports today is a phenomenon of excess, of ferocious aggression." Players are encouraged to bash opponents out of a game, by fair means or foul. Brawls and scuffles interrupt baseball and basketball games, and hockey melees have long been so common they are considered just a part of the show. Few athletic officials seem upset. Instead of quickly handing out fines and suspensions, too many coaches and managers engage in long-winded debates...
...what was fascinating and colorful about stock-car racing also helped keep the sport provincial. "People used to think of stock-car driving as the kind of thing where you roll your cigarettes up in your sleeve and go out for a Saturday night bash-up," recalls Wallace, 33, whose fresh face suggests a fast-track Wall Street trainee rather than a fast-lane white knuckler. "The side of your car usually had something like JOE'S GARAGE...
...Sandinistas seemed disinclined to push their protest as far as full- scale revolt. Nevertheless, Chamorro acted wisely to bring a swift halt to the unrest. As the rapid acceleration of violence showed, militants of all political stripes are eager to use any pretext to bash former foes. At the height of last week's confusion, her staunchest conservative critic, Vice President Virgilio Godoy, called for the formation of "Brigades of National Salvation," apparently hoping to deputize the armed groups that clashed with strikers. Not surprisingly, Chamorro's prudence was denounced by Godoy and other conservatives within her 14-party alliance...
...important not to just bash ROTC," Dyer said. "Once they've given the military a chance to respond to their concerns, then they can say they condemn the policy...
...Robert Strauss, former Democratic chairman, and urged him to announce his candidacy. Strauss, 71, declared himself too old. The prominent whisper now is that the Democrats should field the soothingly sensible Bentsen as a sacrificial lamb and put Kerrey beside him to position the Nebraskan for the big Quayle bash in '96. Trouble is that neither Bentsen nor Kerrey has said he would go along with the plan. It may be a while before Dave Yepsen sees anything on his far horizons but Washington's trial balloons...