Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush does not want stricter gun controls, and said he would veto legislation banning hand guns that cannot be detected by security devices...
...anyone's going to be brought up on charges it should be him," Thompson says, adding, "the city manager should slap his hand...
...First of all, the Kennedy family much more directly has ties to Massachusetts and New England," Roosevelt said. "And secondly, many more people are alive who have had first-hand experiences with John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy...
When Washington Mayor Marion Barry handed a golden key to Kimi Gray last week, an unprecedented transaction was at hand: tenants of a once run-down public- housing complex were about to buy the property. Gray had been fighting for this moment since 1981, when she decided that the Kenilworth projects' 464 apartments needed tenant management. Gray organized and inspired the tenants, got them to keep their kids in school and hunt for jobs. By 1986, rent receipts were up 77%; Gray says welfare dependency, once as high as 85%, is down...
...rescue, took nearly a day to reduce the barrier to rubble. By late afternoon a sister ship, the Vladimir Arseniev, plowed within 400 yds. of two California gray whales that had been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into the slush-filled channel, cheered on by more than 100 spectators. Said Arnold Brower Jr., a local whaling captain: "I feel like my burden is lifted...