Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuel much of the violence in the inner city. "The ones that are dopers, they don't fear nothing," says Hermon DeJurnett, 26, of south central Los Angeles. He knows. Almost two years ago, a good portion of his calf was blown away when he was shot at point-blank range -- by his cousin. "He wanted money for drugs," contends DeJurnett. "He just flipped out and blasted me." A heavyset former gang member who once served eleven months for mugging a woman and dislocating her shoulder, DeJurnett now has a part-time job as a construction worker and lives...
...Fresno avoids the pitfalls of most TV parody -- gimmicks and overkill -- it errs on the side of politeness. The satire is too meek, there ^ are too many dead spots and blank expressions, and the dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...
...general, when universities enter the health-care arena, they spend only as much as they take in from participating employees, Benjamin said. Under plans being investigated, Harvard and other universities would not be "writing a blank check" for runaway nursing home costs, he said...
...hour sprints, since Haring was technically trespassing and could have been arrested by East German border guards at any moment. "They had binoculars trained on me, cameras clicking practically the whole time, and then their heads appeared over the top of the wall to glare at me at point-blank range," said Haring. "I tell you, it was a bit scary." Not a comment to be taken lightly from someone who got his start painting in the New York City subway system...
...York and California, and 116 colleges and universities have either completed or announced plans to sell their stock in companies with South African holdings. These relentless campaigns eventually had an effect. "Many chief executives are tired of being hassled by the protests and the divestment campaigns," says Stephen Blank, senior associate at New York's Multinational Strategies consulting firm. "This is not the kind of publicity they want." Some firms might have endured the hassle factor if they could have pointed to their South African operations as solid profit centers. But fewer and fewer have been able...