Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with the Executioner. The Mikado's demand for an execution has imperiled Ko-Ko's life (he being the only person on death row at the time), so Nanki-Poo bargains to be executed in a month in Ko-Ko's place in exchange for Yum-Yum's hand. This seems quite fair because he cannot live without Yum-Yum anyway. Every-body is happy...
...fact, that opportunity is now at hand. This week we are beginning again, as we did before the May 17 election, to distribute membership cards and encourage all Harvard employees to be a part of that process of decision-making and mutual support...
...crack," the cheap and readily available cocaine derivative. Kelly's figures show that the share of killings in New York that are drug-related has climbed steadily from about 25% in the early 1980s to almost 40% this year. The problem is double edged. On one hand, crack abusers frequently seem indifferent to the use of deadly force. On the other, the street-level drug trade is so lucrative that it seems worth killing for. In Washington law-enforcement officials attribute the mayhem to turf wars between rival dope gangs vying for shares of the city's wide-open...
...exert on the Sudanese government the kind of concerted pressure they applied to neighboring Ethiopia when the Marxist regime there was hindering famine relief in another civil war. They fear criticism would strain their fragile ties to a government strategically placed between Ethiopia and Libya and only strengthen the hand of the fundamentalist National Islamic Front, an important power in the Khartoum coalition...
Antiabortion activists, jubilant at the election of George Bush, say victory is almost at hand. Will they succeed? Pro- choice groups say no and make plans to take their battle into the streets...