Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manager kicked them out of the store because he knew, just like I knew, that a lot of people would look into Au Bon Pain and see a bunch of Black kids and think: Gang wannabes. Crack. Guns. Inner-city violence...
...deserve that label, but the fact is that you have turned sharply against American involvements abroad. That is partly because isolationism is as American as apple pie, partly because the cold war is over, partly because in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti, Clinton and his foreign policy team evoke the gang that couldn't shoot straight. That impression was certainly reinforced by the spectacle of the "world's only superpower" beating a panicky retreat in Mogadishu over the deaths of 18 American troops. But, you say, along with practically everyone else, if we intervene somewhere and risk even one American life...
...gang bosses says his name is Charles. A huge, tattooed man, he wears a T shirt with multicolored skeletons across the chest and the label DEAD HEAD. He says he lost his job as a guard at city hall when Aristide took over and now spends his time on the street "waiting for orders." He claims his neighbors called him a Macoute and tried to kill him. "If Aristide returns, I will not live much longer," he says. "They will come...
Both candidates pay lip service to this new agenda. Giuliani, who made his reputation as a gang-busting U.S. Attorney during the Reagan Administration, talks up his plans to crack down on crooks, privatize government services and lower taxes. Such proposals, however, aren't markedly different from those offered by Dinkins, who trumpets a two-year decline in the city's crime rate, an improvement in some city services like the extension of library hours, and his record of balancing the budget every year since taking office...
...former gang member and a national expert on AIDS were just two of the panelists who spoke Saturday at "Breaking the Silence," co-sponsored by the Asian Health Association and Ayurveda, the South Asian medical student organization, of the Medical School...