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...Sorry about all that." He said "Sorry about some of that." Left standing as the N.R.A.'s chief enemy, which the association continues to demonize in its insatiable quest for new members and more money, is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "That was no apology," says Dewey Stokes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. "LaPierre can't get off the hook by saying, 'Oops, I was really only talking about atf. Law enforcement is a family, and when you attack one member, you attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAT WAS NO APOLOGY | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...thought alike," Houghton said. "We were all Dewey-Rockefeller Republicans...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Numbers of Harvard Grads in Congress Down | 1/6/1995 | See Source »

...Democrats also lost control of both houses of Congress in elections in 1946 -- and Harry Truman went on to defeat Tom Dewey two years later. A caveat: Republicans show no inclination to nominate a presidential candidate with a mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Days Are Here Again | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...Smith is accused of is atypical. Says Suzanne Barnard, a social worker with the $ children's division of the American Humane Association: "I don't think most parents who murder children wake up in the morning and say, 'This is the day I'm going to kill my kids.' " Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, says, "Usually one thing leads to another, and the problem escalates to the point where eventually the person caves in under the pressure and stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents Who Kill | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...system is easy to learn; there are only five rubrics. I am confident that upon reflection you will find it is better suited than the Dewey system for today's literature...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: What Dewey Read? | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

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