Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fed up with the economic hardships and the restrictions on personal liberties, hundreds of young have set out for Florida in flimsy rubber tubes or rafts. More than 1,000 Cubans, the majority of them under 30, have survived the dangerous crossing this year. "Take me with you in your suitcase," pleads a high school student, only half in jest. After months of leniency, malcontents are again being hauled off to jails or rounded up for warnings. Local block groups, with 4 million members, have formed "rapid-reaction brigades" to nip any protests...
Some folks just can't get along. There, in a grocery store in suburban Portland, Ore., was cashier Tom Morgan, more or less minding his own business. And there also was cashier Randy Maresh, who seemed to delight in tormenting Morgan. At length Morgan got fed up, hired a lawyer and sued Maresh for $100,000 in damages. The complaint: Maresh "willfully and maliciously inflicted severe mental stress and humiliation . . . by continually, intentionally and repeatedly passing gas directed at the plaintiff." Not only that: Maresh would "hold it and walk funny to get to me" before expressing himself...
...activity remains so sluggish that the jobless rate is expected to continue to rise for the rest of the year. Some experts even warn that the economy, burdened by high debts and a weak banking system, could fall again unless the Federal Reserve moves quickly to lower interest rates. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has kept rates firm to control inflation. But with the threat of a "double-dip recession" hovering over the economy, Greenspan may feel new pressure from the Administration to relax his monetary grip as the 1992 presidential election draws near...
Hopes in this country are fed by reports of sightings of Americans in Asian jungles, often from refugees or anti-communist guerrilla bands seeking money and publicity from the U.S. The production of faked pictures, forged letters, dog tags, even bones has become a cottage industry in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Veterans' groups and families of missing servicemen have offered large rewards for information, but none of the thousands of reported sightings and pictures has ever turned up a surviving American prisoner...
...moment, their aplomb seems to be deserting them. Judging by opinion surveys and diagnoses in the press, a country that long prided itself on being the lumiere du monde is awash in dark soul searching. The French are said to be fed up with politics and politicians. There is the hangover from the gulf war, an episode that deflated the vaunted image of French power and influence. Paris waffled about what to do almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel...