Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really your fault? If so, that's good news for Gingrich. Asked on TV a few months ago about his use of marijuana during the Vietnam period, he said it was merely a sign that he had been "alive and in graduate school in that era." Right. And smoking crack or having a child out of wedlock is merely a sign that you're alive and in the inner city in the 1990s...
...fall "raises the question as to whether the U.N. force will be able to stay in Bosnia and perform its humanitarian mission." The Clinton Administration has been one of the biggest supporters of keeping U.N. forces in Bosnia, notes Thompson, but "with this statement we may be seeing a crack in its resolve...
Some truisms: peace is better than war. Any increase in sales of U.S. goods to foreigners is preferable to none. A door to Japanese markets pushed open a crack beats one slammed shut. So the auto-and-parts agreement concluded by U.S. and Japanese negotiators in Geneva last week, just barely in time to head off a possible transpacific trade war, looks beneficial to both sides...
...satire. At the center of the story is S.O. Letterman, a movie producer who starts off high-minded and ends with his eye on the box office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands of the Nazis, illustrate the collapse of the 20th century's grandest assumptions about reason and scientific objectivity...
...April the Sentencing Commission, by a 4 to 3 vote, recommended that base sentences for crack and cocaine be equalized. Even so, the playing field would not be entirely leveled. Under the proposed guidelines, drug sales involving weapons, violence or perpetrators who have significant criminal records would receive stiffer sentences. Thus, the Commission notes, "crack offenders will receive sentences generally at least twice as long as those for powder cocaine offenders involved with the same amount of drugs...