Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple facts in mind, the question of divestment becomes moot. Not because divestment will or will not work, but because it will not occur until it is no longer profitable to conduct business in South Africa. That will happen when Black workers in South Africa rise in revolt and crush the apartheid state...
...order to consolidate his dictatorship, Benito Mussolini decided to crush the Mafia in the mid-1920s. Using such draconian methods as torture and summary execution, the police weakened the Mafia's stranglehold on Sicily. Don Vito was arrested and convicted for smuggling. When the president of the court asked Don Vito if he had something to say in his defense, the tall, distinguished-looking old man with a flowing beard declared, "Gentlemen, since you have been unable to find any evidence for the numerous crimes I really have committed, you are reduced to condemning me for the only...
...agreement, in 1997 Hong Kong will become a "Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China," with "a high degree of autonomy." But for all their celebrated ingenuity and adaptability, the Hong Kong Chinese fear that their new, sometimes draconian Communist motherland might either crush or mishandle the community's laissez-faire capitalist system. In the words of James McGregor, director of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, "Prosperity, in a free-enterprise territory like ours, requires confidence, and confidence is a delicate plant. You cannot have big, heavy-booted people trampling all over...
After a shaky start last night, the Harvard women's volleyball team bounced back to crush a host Wheaton squad...
Similarly, Harvard should make a much greater effort to provide terminals and computers in the Houses in order to loosen the strain on the central system and the inevitable mad crush in the basement of the Science Center...