Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white and 45% black, the New South is embodied in a black mayor and a white sheriff, both of whom came swiftly forward to declare the attack an isolated, containable hate crime. "We have no Aryan Nation or K.K.K. in Jasper County," said Sheriff Billy Rowles. Mayor R.C. Horn reinforced the notion: "We don't show any animosity here. This town has been about loving each other. If it was different, I wouldn't be mayor." Residents of Jasper (pop. 7,500) loudly decried the murder; so did relatives of the suspects. Ronald King, whose son John William...
Farther south, crank has decimated the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, populated by descendants of the warriors who routed Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. "Crank will do to the reservations what Custer couldn't," says Bonnie Pipe, clinical director of a tribal recovery center in the town of Lame Deer. When James Walksalong, chairman of the local school board, brought in a team of drug-sniffing dogs last year, kids climbed out of classroom windows, and by the end of the day the dogs had detected 30 instances of drug residue. On reservations throughout Montana and Wyoming...
...hasn't worked. Last week Representative Steve Horn, perhaps the most Y2K-savvy Congressman, gave Uncle Sam's software failing grades. "Under Koskinen," the California Republican growled in a voice that could give anyone what-if nightmares, "government performance has fallen from a D minus to an F." At current debugging rates, 13 of the 24 largest agencies won't have fixed their most crucial computers in time. Among them...
...plans to ground planes if its air-traffic system isn't repaired--and it may have to carry them out. The government's own accountants complained earlier this year that "at its present rate, the FAA will not make it." The Department of Transportation, meanwhile, flunked Horn's report card for its laughably poor efforts to overhaul its 630 most critical systems, which the agency says will be complete, oh, by sometime in 2004. Still, FAA Y2K chief Ray Long insists that air traffic is a top priority, and "there's no doubt in my mind that we're going...
...brain and the muscles could work in perfect coordination on the aesthetic spot. Apollo and Dionysus met in the sweating container of a genius from New Orleans whose sensitivity and passion were epic in completely new terms. In his radical reinterpretations, Armstrong bent and twisted popular songs with his horn and his voice until they were shorn of sentimentality and elevated to serious art. He brought the change agent of swing to the world, the most revolutionary rhythm of his century. He learned how to dress and became a fashion plate. His slang was the lingua franca...