Word: gunned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since New Year's Day, Washington has seen 55 murders, and City Council Chairman David Clarke has proposed a radical solution to the wave of homicides. Last week he introduced a bill that would further strengthen the city's tough gun-control laws by extending a legal doctrine called "strict liability" to firearms. The law would classify guns as inherently dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through...
Whatever good sense these palliatives make, they would certainly cramp the style of some ultrarich whose money lust is tempered by an engagingly eccentric sense of how to spend their fortunes. Arthur Jones, the gruff, gun- toting inventor of Nautilus sports equipment, is laird of a Florida estate that includes a runway large enough to land his own Boeing 707; it is used, among other things, to fly in wild animals for medical research. One of them, which Jones proudly shows Packard, is a reptilian rarity: the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity. Nice...
...commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel...
...medley relay, talked about the tension he faced: "I knew that if I got disqualified for my start that Dave's record wouldn't count. All I could think about as Jon [Manson] was coming in was to make sure that I didn't jump the gun...
...hold of interstate buses and planes. Federal agents even uncovered one shipment sent by United Parcel Service and labeled "sewing-machine parts." Most of the time they move unimpeded by the kinds of inspections imposed on shipments from outside the U.S. Until more uniformity can be established among state gun laws, gun smuggling on the interstates will remain a flourishing trade...