Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion team that went to Miami, then with the Seattle Mariners. Says local booster Jack Critchfield...
James is a brave writer, and he pushes his stereotypes to grotesque limits. At an all-Black school, for example, "throngs of students congest the corridor smoking resinous Rasta spliffs, snorting smack from tiny, waxed-paper sacks; drinking pints of Wild Irish Rose; sucking tubes of crack; fighting with razors; firing pistols; dry-humping each other against lockers; hawking stolen goods; miscarrying half-formed fetuses; singing gospel; and wailing the blues...
...speaks honestly and movingly of a hometown that was alternately embracing and terrifying. It has the tone of a leave-taking; with this critical essay Harrison realizes she is publicly, officially severing herself from the community she grew up in. It is a brave and difficult fight against the powerful "will to silence...
When a 176-lb. remote-controlled bomb obliterated anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino and five police bodyguards last week, no one could miss the message: the Mob would kill anyone, anywhere, in its campaign of intimidation. The brave efforts of a handful of Sicilian judges and prosecutors like Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, assassinated in a similar blast in May, had won only feeble support from Rome. Nonetheless, the courts managed to put more than 400 suspected mobsters on trial and convict the vast majority of them. But now the Mafia has challenged the prosecutors to back off, and its bloody...
Jordan's involvement in the smuggling is illicit, but greed inspired a willingness to brave the consequences of violating the U.N. strictures imposed after the gulf war. Until a few weeks ago, truck convoys from Jordan transported 6,000 tons of goods a day into Iraq, but only about 70% were the food and medicine permitted by the U.N. The remainder, say U.S. intelligence officials, consisted of materials Saddam has used to rebuild the infrastructure damaged by allied bombs...