Word: dente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first thing is that Francesea Dent larding is still hurt. The second is Lilli Pew is still. The third is Lisa Black. Beth Mution and Alicia Clifton all still have seriously nagging injuries. And the fourth is that the Harvard women's lacrosse squad will still find...
Police and prosecutors know that they have no great public mandate to wage a war on cocaine?a war they admit, realistically, they could not win. "They never got rid of pot," says René, 29, a Western publishing executive, "and they won't make a dent in cocaine. There's no stigma." Cocaine retains its less and less valid cachet as the plaything of athletes, entertainers and other starry achievers. Says DEA Agent James Burke of Denver: "The mystique, the myths and the respectability are all working against...
Glowing with moral indignation, the Presi dent applied brimstone, aiming sulfurous blasts at the Soviet Union. "There is sin and evil in the world. And we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might . . . America has kept alight the torch of freedom . . . Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness - pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
...finish of the strike, the end result was a full scale rout for the independents. Dropping his predictions of 98 percent compliance to 70 percent during the first week of the strike, Parkhurst was eventually dealing with a 15 to 20 percent reduction in truck traffic--hardly the dent he had hoped for. The media concluded the affair by losing interest after the obligatory violence was curtailed, and the more fanatical independents and the lunatics who took advantage of the situation to delight in dropping bricks onto trucks from overpasses were checked (though not entirely stopped) by increased police protection...
...four-month-old effort to substantially reorganize and improve the operations of the city's rent control board is proceeding well. Cambridge officials said yesterday, adding that the campaign is making a dent in the agency's massive backlog of cases...