Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Goffigan never got there because he was hit by a stray bullet from a gang shootout that night and died the next...
...death. McGonigal, a Jesuit priest, had found his way to Vietnam as a chaplain. During the Tet offensive in early 1968, he seized an M-16 and tried to storm the citadel in the old imperial capital of Hue. He died going up the hill, with a communist's bullet in his head...
...made his name with such incendiary devices as Bullet in the Head and Hard-Boiled--furious meditations on manhood as a criminal state of grace. Broken Arrow is jokier, less resonant than those dark epics, but it's still a swell night at the movies. The audience gets as pulverizing a workout as the stars do. Or rather, the stars' stunt doubles, who deserve Oscars for best supporting masochism...
...bill. Until now, no company could own more than 12 TV stations reaching a maximum of 25% of U.S. households. The cap has been raised to 35%, with no restriction on the number of stations. (Caps on radio-station ownership will be removed entirely.) Broadcasters dodged one bullet, at least temporarily, when Senator Bob Dole dropped his opposition to a provision awarding new spectrum space (for digital broadcasting and other advanced technology) to existing TV stations for free. Dole, joining many Democrats and consumer advocates, had argued that the valuable spectrum space should instead be auctioned. In a compromise, Dole...
...MONTHS SINCE HE BECAME President, Ernesto Samper Pizano has dodged bullet after political bullet, each carrying accusations that his 1994 election campaign received millions of dollars in contributions from the Cali cocaine cartel. He has responded that if drug funds were accepted, it was without his knowledge. But last week the President's evasions were firmly contradicted: a former close associate charged that Samper was indeed aware of the cartel connection. Though many Colombians all along have believed that the Samper campaign had a Cali taint, the latest allegation stunned the country. As calls for the President's resignation mounted...