Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Defrauded investors took to the streets to protest their suspicion that government officials at least tacitly allowed the schemes to continue and perhaps even profited from them. After protests turned violent, the government declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and enforced a strict curfew, authorizing police to shoot armed rebels who offer resistance...
...years. When he was 13 and living in Columbus, Ohio, his mother Denetta was beaten to death. He had never seen his father, so for months he was passed around among aunts and uncles until the parents of a schoolmate finally took him in. He was given a curfew, a newspaper route--and a new life. "They settled me down," Glenn says. "I just wanted a home foundation." In high school he starred at football, but coaches at Ohio State told him that at 5 ft. 10 in. and 180 lbs. he was too small for the Big 10. Glenn...
...cast painted flowers on the audience members' cheeks and they had us all join in a rousing rendition of "Let the Sun Shine In" at the finale. We were all temporarily transported to a really hip drug culture-- that is, before we all raced home to meet curfew. In short, that production was atrocious. Not even restoring the school-censored nudity would have saved...
...propaganda, indoctrinating me about the dangers of everything that sounded like fun. The conversations evolved from Cheerios are better for you than Froot Loops to no sex before marriage, no drinking to excess and certainly no drugs. I was the last of my friends to live under a midnight curfew; I always had to be home for dinner; and if I was going out, I had to leave a phone number...
...Agreeing to the conditions] would alter some aspects of the club," Paschke said, calling the capacity limit and curfew a "detriment" to those who come to the club to relax after a long night of studying...