Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critics is Chinese dissident Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai, the diary of her harsh 6 1/2-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. Cheng notes that millions of Chinese are already devoted to Voice of America. And the new service might "give hard-liners an excuse to crack down on dissidents...
SOMETIME DURING my junior year a woman was killed near my high school in Seattle. The yellow police tape around the convenience store was a familiar sight. With three to four crack houses regularly in operation literally across the street and many more in the neighboring blocks, it was a rare week when there wasn't some kind of police bust or drug/gang-related violence in the area...
...mere baseball card to compete with the latest offering in candy stores and comic-book shops: "killer cards" that feature notorious mass murderers, complete with gory drawings and graphic descriptions of their crimes. Some New York State legislators, with the support of victims' rights groups, are seeking to crack down on the unsavory trading cards. Their bill, which parallels proposed legislation in a handful of other states, would make it a misdemeanor to sell such cards to minors. Argues sponsor Alan Hevesi, an assemblyman: "Where there is excessive violence in a film, children are barred from admission, and that...
...fact that The Crimson chose to open its response to Counter with a wise-crack by suggesting that "the four months the Foundation took to respond to The Crimson's four-part series on diversity" may be explained by the possibility that "perhaps the Harvard Foundation is woefully understaffed," is indicative of the lack of seriousness with which The Crimson approaches Counter and his work...
...what a growing number of House Democrats have been saying behind closed doors. To them, Foley could have cleaned up the House bank before it grew into the most damaging congressional scandal in decades. Instead, he has exposed them to ridicule -- and possible defeat this November -- by failing to crack down on former House sergeant at arms Jack Russ, whose sloppy oversight of the now defunct bank permitted members to write overdrafts long after Russ had assured the Speaker that new procedures to prevent such abuses had been installed. Even after Foley was warned by comptroller general Charles Bowsher...