Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some sort of currency crack-up had seemed likely for months -- especially to the speculators. Germany's high interest rates, designed to hold down inflation while attracting investors to pay for rebuilding the former East Germany, angered Bonn's European partners, most of whom are fighting recession and prefer low rates to foster growth...
Some first-years living at 29 Garden St. said last week that they believe the letter, sent just three days after manystudents arrived on campus, represented a move bysome administrators to crack down on parties inthe temporary dorm...
Unfortunately, the topic is unwieldy: it ranges from Dan Quayle to single mothers; from crack houses to race. In a phrase, I am describing the decline of America. I am not grappling with an amorphous moral problem or some spiritual misgivings. The problem is more practical than that...
...unreasonable to believe that if drugs were legalized, people who stole and murdered for crack money in the past would now buy it with pay from a regular job. Teens would no longer need to cheat their employers and do favors for dealers in order to smoke marijuana like other people drink Jack Daniels...
...throng, which has been growing steadily, surges ahead. The red iron gates have eased open a crack, enough to let through a single file of supplicants. Inside, 12 Somali guards dressed in battle fatigues and armed with M-16 rifles issue orders. Wielding 3-ft. wooden switches, they herd the people into neat rows at the rear of a large earthen courtyard. In 30 minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point...