Word: guns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wooing has heated up lately because Bush has angered conservatives by making concessions to Democrats on clean air, the contras and gun control. Unlike Ronald Reagan, whose ties to the right were so strong that he could occasionally ignore conservatives, Bush routinely courts the right...
While Harvard has been involved in run 'n gun, high-scoring affairs--with most of the scoring being done by its opponents--Cornell has been relying on the controlled running and short passes of quarterback Chris Cochrane and a solid defense, led by All-American linebacker Mitch Lee and the best secondary in the Ivy League...
...fudged data. Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel prizewinning director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was one of six authors of the research paper on genetic transplants. Although Baltimore was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, a congressional investigation found the scientific equivalent of a smoking gun in the laboratory of one of his co-authors. Their research project was being funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health...
...sofa in her mother's living room in Bartlesville, Okla., last May 1 when her cousin Neil Ennis walked in, carrying a 12-gauge pump shotgun. Ennis leveled the weapon at the girl. "Shall we put her out of her misery?" he asked a mutual friend standing there. The gun went , off, killing Griggs. Her photograph was featured on the cover of TIME's July 17 investigation into the deaths of the 464 people killed by guns in the U.S. during the week...
...possiblilities now are fairly clear. Either the body will build upon the political legitimacy it won for itself last year, or it will become gun-shy and lapse back into complacent accommodation...