Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large group of out first-years may result from a sort of domino effect. "There are so many freshmen who came one foot in one foot out of the closet and needed to see other out freshmen," Roddy says. "With this freshman class there were enough of a core group of people who are out to encourage other people to come...
...saga began in August 1993, when Adrian Guthrie and Simon Roberts, both 17, and raised in Klawock, ordered a pizza in Everett, Washington. When Domino's Pizza deliveryman Timothy Whittlesey showed up, Guthrie distracted him and Roberts hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat, leaving him, his assailant now admits, "kinda in convulsions." A bystander saw the teens removing Whittlesey's beeper, $40 and the pizza. The two Tlingits pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer was expected to assign prison terms of up to 5 1/2 years...
...audience, both boys apologized for their crime. But then, responding to leading questions by their elders, they ticked off a list of extenuating circumstances: they had been drunk; Roberts always carried a bat with him for fear of gangs; he had "heard a report that one of the Domino's Pizza deliverymen had a gun" and might be dangerous. The day's session ended with a statement by one of the elders that "it's a known fact that under the influence of alcohol you can break all the Ten Commandments of God." The two defendants, who sometimes had trouble...
...North Korean negotiators in Geneva were hammering out a joint statement this evening -- probably an agreement on how to dispose of 8,000 spent fuel rods that North Korea could otherwise use in its alleged nuclear weapons program, a North Korean diplomat said. The pact could set off a domino effect, observes TIME correspondent Jay Peterzell, resulting in a U.S.-funded, $2 billion light-water reactor -- unsuitable for production of fuel for weapons -- for Pyongyang, and the establishment of full diplomatic ties. After tonight, the two sides are expected to break until September. "This buys time and keeps everything...
...domino effect will be felt in other ways as well. Homeowners take pride in where they live. It would be a refreshing change in many parts of the city to see people take pride in their neighborhoods. Whole sections of the city which have been lost to drugs and gangs may yet be reclaimed. Residential neighborhoods will expand. Children will be safe to play outside...