Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight people mingled socially as well as professionally, and there was a line dividing the on-screen persona of an actor from his private life. But with the advent of sound and the conservative reactionism of the 1930s which accompanied the start of the Great Depression, a crackdown ensued on both the content of the films and the private lives of their stars...
Giuliani was already three days into a meltdown in which he'd snapped at, among others, a columnist who claimed that he clocked Giuliani speeding in his GMC Suburban shortly after the mayor vowed a crackdown on scofflaw motorists as well as jaywalkers, and promised--read closely here--the creation of a more polite New York City...
...article, "Law School Reacts to Truancy Crackdown" (News, Feb. 11), The Crimson erred in reporting that the members of the Legal Education Committee "voted last Friday in favor of a new, mandatory class attendance policy at the Law School." In fact, we voted on no such thing...
What more appropriate motivation can there be for this crackdown than the recent underage drinking deaths and the constant rise of under-age alcohol consumption? To describe Scott Krueger's death as a result of unsafe party and fraternity environments rather than underage alcohol abuse suggests that the writers spend more time writing editorials than they do researching facts...
...justifying the crackdown to The Crimson, Annenberg Manager Kay D'Andria said she and her staff were only trying to keep everyone healthy. Students, she said, may take a sandwich and not eat it, put it in their pocket, and, if it has mayonnaise or something, it could get contaminated. Talk about far-fetched. We trust our peers to remember when they have stowed an entire sandwich in a pocket and to think twice before biting into food that's been sitting in their jacket for a week. If anything, the crack-down is only detrimental to first-years health...