Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's nothing here for me," says Jeffrey Hickman, 18, a Villa Griffin resident. "Only dope, gangs and shooting every night. I'll stay and graduate from school, but there's no way I can make something of myself here. I got to go someplace else, anyplace. Maybe the Coast Guard...
...colleagues in the newspaper business can be forgiven for occasionally thinking there is something leisurely about putting together a magazine that comes out only once a week. That is rarely true, and it certainly wasn't last week. On Saturday we were ready to go to press in the U.S. and Canada with a cover story on the frightening tide of violence among American youths when we heard news of the massacre in Beijing. Shortly before midnight, with the death toll rising into the hundreds, Executive Editor Ronald Kriss made the decision to change the cover. Then, as if things...
...anything, these few morality trials do not go nearly far enough. The real scandal in Congress is not what's illegal; it is what's legal: the blatant, shameless greasing of congressional palms that violates good sense, good taste and good government. Capitol Hill is polluted by money -- campaign money, speech-giving money, outside money from investments, and money substitutes like all-expenses-paid vacations and gifts. Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobby Common Cause, is looked upon these days as an ethics ayatullah, but he is not overstating by much when he says, "Our nation faces...
...January, 27 members of Congress, some with wives and children, left the cold of Washington for the sun of the California desert courtesy of the tobacco industry. Off they flew, at about $1,000 per round-trip ticket, and stayed at the luxurious Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, where suites go for $300 a night, the greens fees are prepaid, and meals are included. In addition to expenses, most legislators got spending money -- $1,000 to $2,000 -- for participating in one of three 90-minute panel discussions that ended at 11:30 a.m. each day so members could...
...members gifts worth more than $100. But the rule is offset by a loophole that allows legislators to accept airfare, hotel rooms and meals if attending a legislative conference, visiting a company plant or taking part in a celebrity golf or tennis tournament. A spouse or an aide can go along; children somehow slip in. Common Cause found that in 1987 Congressmen took eleven years' worth of free vacations courtesy of this proviso...