Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Compounded by Bucknell's offensive power and talent, we spelled out with brutal clarity that you can't let the big play kill you," said captain Ed Kinney, describing with grandiloquence one of the few games that can appropriately be described that way. "Those plays destroyed us and they fed on each other--they opened us up over the middle, making us even more more vulnerable...
...along with getting an escape valve for 50,000 dissatisfied citizens, Fidel is closer than he has ever been to seeing at least a partial end to the U.S. embargo and a formal recognition of what has been the most brutal dictatorship in the history of a country remarkable for its brutal and corrupt dictators. The New York Times has recently reported that a "blueprint" for talks between Cuba and the U.S. are imminent...
...reform but to drive you crazy. Cool is what you need to survive here, and supercool is what you need to maintain a semblance of humanity. Andy, who insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical warden Norton (Bob Gunton, an oil slick in shoes) but also turn a tidy profit for him and his best...
Things remained quiet in the second day of U.S. troops' being permitted to keep the peace aggressively when necessary. A sign the formerly brutal Haitian police got the message: American G.I.s have taken over directing traffic...
...collections are running 6% ahead of the past fiscal year. Sales-tax receipts are especially strong; for all 50 states they rose 8% in the second quarter over the 1993 period, and 18 states had double-digit increases. In some states, the growth of spending has slowed, thanks to brutal cuts enacted, along with heavy tax increases, to keep budgets balanced during and immediately after the 1990-91 recession (48 states are required by law to balance their budgets every year...