Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commemorate the start of the World Cup soccer tournament in America, the government of Norway gave an elaborate gift to Red Hook, an American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Norway Field was a miniature soccer green with a high-performance artificial all-weather surface, which the Norwegian government wanted placed in an underprivileged neighborhood...
Then, 10 days after its dedication in Red Hook, in daylight and with ghastly impudence, local youths set fire to the field and to the fence surrounding it. The Times reported that a "gaping hole was scared into the center." Within 48 hours the entire green was removed from the site and the ground was once again empty, vandal-proof and concrete...
...local sports organizer in Red Hook told the Times that, "some people call this a lost neighborhood." There are too many "lost neighborhoods" across the country. It is bad enough that America kills its own children on the streets where they play. Do we also have to slap a friendly country across the face for offering to help...
...George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those invasions even though Congress was never consulted in advance now insist the plain sense of the Constitution is that the President must not send troops into combat on his own hook if it can be avoided. Discounting for hypocrisy on both sides, Clinton's critics would seem to have the better of the argument. In the case of Haiti, the President can hardly claim he must act quickly to ward off a threat to the U.S. or to save American lives...
...Inside-the-Beltway hype has suggested. The coalition, led by Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., hoped to present Senate leaders today with a bill designed to break the impasse between Republicans and Democrats. It would put cost controls on the insurance industry, and take employers off the hook of having to provide bill for coverage. But this morning, Congressional Budget Office Director Robert Reischauer said their numbers didn't add up. Chafee called the briefing "sobering," but added: "I certainly don't want to throw in the towel yet." TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson was less optimistic: "This could...