Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support she would get. I had a little experience along those lines myself," said Kathryn Whitmire, who also happens to be the city's first female mayor. But eight months after becoming the first U.S. woman to head a big-city force, Watson, 41, has shown she can hack it. She took over a department reeling from low morale caused by widespread staff reductions and paltry salaries and quickly won the force a 6% raise. Lauded as a hard worker who came up through the ranks, Watson will never forget being handed a dress pattern and told...
...from attending meetings. In 1975, when Korea University was closed and occupied by soldiers trying to quell demonstrations, the club stayed open by moving its operations to a nearby tearoom. "The only time we stop reading TIME is during middle-term and final examinations," says faculty adviser Kang Sung Hack. Last month members even slogged through severe floods in Seoul in order to get together...
...climax of 17th century Spain's greatest tragedy, as oppressed villagers hack to shreds their tyrannical overlord, trashing his palace and slaughtering his bullyboy guards, the playgoer's mind leaps to Nicolae Ceausescu's Bucharest, to Samuel Doe's Monrovia and to far too many other gruesome places arraigned in current headlines. Although Lope de Vega's play was written around 1612 and was based on an actual occurrence in 1476, the abuses of power it depicts remain painfully close to our times...
...seemed a massive irony. Through four decades of apartheid, the Afrikaner Nationalists had outlawed effective political structures in the townships and devastated black family life, creating in the process a generation of scary kids ready to burn, maim and hack to pieces real or fancied enemies -- kids who had never known a home with parents, never been to school or followed any rule but the rule of survival by violence. Now to save the whites from this Frankenstein monster of their creation, the government was counting on the recently legalized African National Congress (A.N.C.) and leaders like Nelson Mandela...
...hack," said Deputy Campaign Manager David H. Darman. "You're not a hack unless you're making a lot of money, and since I've been in politics I've made poverty wage. But I guess I'm stupid, addicted, or both...