Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What a show. Let's hear it for Spring Break 88! (cheers). Let's hear it for Judy (a few claps) and for Cindy (wild applause...
During spring break, the 12 undergraduates, two graduate students and one Harvard professor traveled to Moscow, Kiev and Lenningrad in the USSR and Prague in Czechoslovakia. A group of 12 Soviet students will come to the United States this fall. Their travels during the second part of this year's program will include visits to New York, Boston and Washington...
...smaller specialty stores, Sears is buying up some of them. The company has taken over the Western Auto Supply chain and acquired small groups of women's boutiques and eye-care shops. Sears is also experimenting with different sales tactics in its main stores. Example: the company plans to break its custom of selling only appliances bearing its Kenmore brand name and test public reaction to the appearance of other nationally known brands at one of its stores...
...enough, the President could dust off and reissue a press release written to explain pardons given in 1981 to two men "who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation." The two were high-ranking FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins during 1972-73 investigations of the Weather Underground. The response by the prosecutor in that case, John Nields Jr., who served as chief House counsel in the Iran-contra hearings last summer, is just as apt today. Nields argued that pardons in such cases "send out a terrible signal...
Many law-enforcement specialists fear the residual effects of even broader handgun ownership in a society already saturated with weapons. "The worst reason to buy a gun is solely for protection," says Police Chief Robert Bonneville of Glencoe, Ill., "because guns are very rarely used to stop a break-in. They are most commonly stolen from homes." The statistics of gun ownership are chilling, for men or women: while about 200 people a year successfully use handguns to defend themselves, another 22,000 die from guns as a result of homicides, suicides or accidents...