Word: dropping
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David Dinkins was the first black mayor of New York City (1990-94); Rudolph Giuliani, the current mayor, rode to office on a law-and-order, pro-police platform, and is expected to coast to re-election in large part because of a precipitous 54% drop in serious crime during his time in office. Suddenly, he was faced with the flip side--an apparently horrific instance of police brutality that punctuated three years of complaints by blacks and Hispanics that police abusiveness was out of control. It was not the kind of endorsement Giuliani, usually outspoken in his support...
This year 1.2 million visitors--mostly Canadians, Italians and Latin Americans--are expected to drop about $1.3 billion on the island, which offers the requisite capitalist vices of beautiful beaches, discos and even golf. There are also a surprising number of Americans, whom Cuban officials wave in through Mexico or Jamaica--no need to get your passport stamped. Even after years of steady growth, the number of vacationers continues to increase 15% annually, the fastest pace in the Caribbean. Tourism has replaced sugar as Cuba's main source of hard currency. That is one reason tourist hotels were the targets...
...prosecutors who are trying to build a death penalty case against Nichols say they have evidence he built the bomb. They also say in court motions made public yesterday that Nichols acquired fertilizer and other bomb ingredients, robbed a gun dealer to pay for the bomb and helped McVeigh drop off the getaway car. McVeigh was formally sentenced to death last week. Nichols goes on trial Sept...
...week assignment in a new city. Howard has been dumped by the fiance he adored. Chad, who tells Howard he too has been abandoned, proposes an elaborate scheme of gender revenge. They will choose a vulnerable woman, begin dating demurely, get her to fall in love. And then drop her. "Let's do it," Chad says. "Let's hurt somebody...
...Jerry. Wild-eyed and handsomely grungy, he scares his passengers with his crazy talk and even crazier driving and pulls up to famous people not to let them in his cab but to take pictures of them through his window. But this taxi driver has deep blue eyes and drop-dead good looks, and happens to be played by MelGibson...