Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...egregious violence, in this episode he opted swiftly for the victim. He also announced plans for six months of town meetings between New Yorkers and every one of the city's 38,000 officers. Maybe all that talk could have been avoided if the cops had earlier heard a clearer statement about brutality from the mayor's office...
Mayor Archer's position on the issue is no clearer than a Guyton painting. His first instinct is to force Guyton to remove his artwork from the city-owned property. In 1991 the mayor's predecessor, Coleman Young, bulldozed a couple of abandoned houses that Guyton had decorated. But Archer's handlers have counseled otherwise, pointing out that the Heidelberg Project has become the area's most popular destination point and that its creator is a headstrong folk hero who would only benefit from a confrontation with city hall. As a result, Archer has gone so far as to quietly...
WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...
Exactly what happened to the fishing boat is not known, though the 100-ft. waves of what was called the Halloween Gale were more than enough to capsize such a boat or to pitchpole it end for end. What happened to the crew is clearer, and Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning...
...crowded out there. Operators of quick-service restaurants (QSRS, in the industry lingo) have been expanding the number of taco stands, pizza parlors and burger joints 6% to 7% annually. Compare that with the increase in available mouths, 1% annually, and the equation becomes clearer: the only way to grow business is to bite off a piece of the other guy's sales...