Word: drives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite this, Blacks are beginning to participate in other sports. Besides Nesty, another Black who makes headlines nationally is figure skater Debi Thomas. She is liked and respected all over the world. But how many parents, particularly poor, working Black parents, are able to drive their daughter 40 miles to the nearest skating rink at four in the morning as her parents...
...base our rents on what our affiliates can afford," she said. Raising rents would drive Harvard's affiliates into the already cramped general market for inexpensive rentcontrolled apartments, she added...
...series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In Condon's mad early novels -- The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate -- marvelous characters seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there is to own in the U.S., "only five points down on the Japanese." Old, frail, evil Don Corrado hits on the up-to- date notion of getting out of street crime and franchising it to black, Hispanic and Oriental gangs...
...attacks on Butia and other Kurdish villages began three weeks ago, and have prompted fresh denunciations of the government of President Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons in violation of international law. The assaults are part of a drive that has virtually crushed a long-simmering rebellion of the Kurds and punished Kurdish guerrillas -- known as pesh mergas, or "those who face death" -- for collaborating with the enemy during Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. When Iran agreed to a truce on Aug. 20, the Iraqis began to move against the Kurds...
...Serbs complain that the Kosovo Albanians have launched a campaign of terror and rape to drive them out of the heavily Albanian province. Says Radomir Smiljanic, a well-known Serbian writer: "The harassment of women has become so common that Serbs have to accompany their wives and daughters to work and school." Officials in Kosovo vehemently deny the charges, and non- Serbs elsewhere agree they have been wildly exaggerated by the Serbian press...