Word: feds
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After an assassin's bullet struck former White House Press Secretary James Brady in the 1981 attack on President Reagan and left him partly paralyzed, his wife Sarah became a leading advocate of gun control. Until last week, Brady had never used his plight to dramatize the issue. Finally, fed up with Congress's failure to act on even modest gun-control measures, Brady came before a Senate committee in his wheelchair to deliver a blunt plea. Congress, he said, was "gutless" for failing to pass the Brady amendment, which would require a seven-day waiting period so that police...
...crucial goal came on a three-on-one break. Vukonich fed Murphy in the middle, and Murphy slipped a pass back to Vukonich in the left slot. Vukonich returned the favor, whipping a pass off Burke's stick back to Murphy, who let loose from 10 feet to seal the game...
Considering the respect that Nightline and 48 Hours have won within the TV industry, and the millions of people who regularly watch the shows, it may be that network executives are ready to admit something that viewers know instinctively. Audiences who see satellite-fed video headlines round the clock on every channel may be ready for something more substantial at the dinner hour...
...Israel there is a generation that is fed up with war, especially the generation that went through many wars," Aruri said. He added that for the first time in Israel's history, "we have all the Arab countries and most of the influential Palestinian organizations and the highest majority of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories for a two-state solution...
...will be remembered not as the year that Eastern Europe changed but as the year that Eastern Europe as we have known it for four decades ended. The concept was always an artificial one: a handful of diverse nations suddenly iron- curtained off from their neighbors and force-fed an unwanted ideology. Soviet dominion over the region may someday be regarded as a parenthetical pause (1945-89) that left economic scars but had little permanent impact on the culture and history of Central Europe...