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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handgun. Guns remain exempt from consumer-product safety regulations, although those rules apply to toy guns. And penalties for crooked dealers still fail to recognize the societal costs of illegal gun sales. Says David M. Kennedy, a Harvard expert on gun commerce: "You can get more time for selling crack on a street corner than for putting thousands of guns on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing Out The Bad Guys | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...house a little." Ferrer is 72, and his voice lacks the strength it once had, but its power is undiminished. "I don't want the flowers to know of my life's torment," he sings in Spanish on Silencio. "If they knew of my suffering they would cry." That crack you hear in his voice? It's real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Forget Me Not | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...successfully sold his spending programs as more important than tax cuts," says Branegan. "The White House doesn?t feel it will have to give too much up, and if the GOP stands firm, Clinton will veto it." But take heart, overtaxed Americans: if he does, you'll get another crack at it next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Phantom Tax Cut | 8/4/1999 | See Source »

...video-games console? A couch is nice to sit on, but a console is "a man magnet," she decided. "No male can resist the challenge." I knew what she meant. For mindless fun, you can't beat a console evening. Invite your friends over, gather round the TV, crack open a six-pack and get down to the serious business of knocking the stuffing out of them. It does wonders for your social life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dream Machine | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join in taking a crack at Milosevic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearing Down Milosevic | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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