Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid the woe. As one character noted, "Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story...
...Crimes Tribunal. The Bosnian Muslims have agreed to make arrests only with Tribunal authorization, only on their own territory. In a further sign that this crisis has passed, Serb engineers joined NATO soldiers in a mine clearing mission. "Holbrooke did his best to get over this bump in the road," says Time's Bruce Nelan. "Unfortunately, the situation is by no means resolved. This compromise may keep the Bosnians from arresting everyone they get their hands on, but it does not solve the question of NATO's role in facilitating the work of the War Crimes Tribunal. There are still...
...nearly 40%. Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen, of the eponymous retail drugstore chain, took a compensation hike of 82%, to $4 million, while the company stock climbed 37% for the year. On Wall Street, where the M&A frenzy made for a historic $458 billion worth of deals--up from the previous high...
...THEIR TIPS, as bright and sharp as needles--hang from the eaves: wild ice stalactites, dragon's teeth. I peer through them to see the world transformed to abstract whiteout. Little dervish snow tornadoes twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside...
...open can of beer on the street." Thus what the cops call "beer and piss patrol" became a tactic for apprehending more serious criminals. "Your open beer lets me check your ID," says Maple. "Now I can radio the precinct for outstanding warrants or parole violations. Maybe I bump against that bulge in your belt; with probable cause, I can frisk you." Civil libertarians have been screaming, but shootings, gun murders and other signs of firearms use are down--proof, Bratton says, that thugs are leaving the guns at home...