Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Klaas began speaking against three strikes. But his daughter had already become a symbol for the crackdown on crime, and California's legislature passed the three-strikes law. It now seems politically untouchable, despite horror stories like the one about a Los Angeles 27-year-old who got 25 years to life for stealing pizza. Last year two state senators tried to limit the measure to violent crimes, but the bill didn't make it out of committee. Governor Pete Wilson vetoed a bill simply to study the effects...
Conservatives argue that the real impact of a Davis victory would be a crackdown on boys, their rambunctious natures suddenly defined as harassment. They cite the case of Jonathan Prevette, the North Carolina six-year-old suspended last year for kissing a classmate. They may have a point. The challenge facing the Supreme Court is to come up with an answer that would save Jonathan without sacrificing LaShonda...
Move over, Iraq. Top White House aides have been meeting to prepare for the next international blowup they expect by March: Kosovo. Serbian President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC halted his bloody crackdown of the rebellious province after NATO threatened to bomb him last October. But negotiations to reach a political settlement between Milosevic and the province's ethnic Albanians have stalled. U.S. diplomats managed to avert a major clash in the northern part of the province last Wednesday, when they persuaded Albanian guerrillas to free eight Serb army soldiers, but by the end of the week 45 ethnic Albanians were killed...
...many Florida teens are having trouble taking the crackdown seriously. "I got caught four times in one day," says Marissa LaMonica, 16, who has been smoking since she was 11. "It's really ridiculous." Others insist the new laws won't have any effect on them or their friends. "My parents were pissed off, but it really doesn't do anything," says Marie Hernandez, 16. "People just go behind a bush...
...1980s A crackdown on inflation brings the most painful recession (1981-82) since the Great Depression. Wall Street then goes wild until the Crash...