Word: beltings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repairs. Workers have begun reinforcing the girders, beams, columns and trusses at the site of the opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium's designers and an outside consultant began reviewing construction of the $230 million arena after a light tower collapsed last March, killing a worker. "It's a belt and suspenders thing," says engineer Antranij Ouzoonian, explaining the work on the stadium. "If you have a belt, you're O.K.; if you add suspenders, you're better...
...Dole does not win the Republican nomination, he will die a horrible political death. We will see him vainly thrashing around in his last strongholds--the Bible Belt and the isolated pockets of the country where fundamentalism and fanaticism still rear their low brow heads. At campaign rallies, prayer breakfasts and fund raising dinners, he will constantly draw attention to his gnarled fist, until even his most ardent supporters desert him, disgusted by his shameless antics...
...popular culture and run rampant through it. Anyone who has listened to the lyrics of such groups as Nine Inch Nails or Smashing Pumpkins has undoubtedly felt the incoherent and inexplicable anger conveyed by the music. (Not surprisingly, Seven director David Fincher has many music videos under his belt. The movie's opening music is, in fact, a Nine Inch Nails tune.) And it's impossible to watch television without seeing talk shows and real-crime dramas which amplify and extort human misery for ratings...
...faculty member says that while many of Harvard's schools have done significant belt-tightening to reduce their deficits, the central administration has not made corresponding spending reductions...
...street." Thus what the cops call "beer and piss patrol" became a tactic for apprehending more serious criminals. "Your open beer lets me check your ID," says Maple. "Now I can radio the precinct for outstanding warrants or parole violations. Maybe I bump against that bulge in your belt; with probable cause, I can frisk you." Civil libertarians have been screaming, but shootings, gun murders and other signs of firearms use are down--proof, Bratton says, that thugs are leaving the guns at home...