Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entry-level positions with little hope for advancement. The nation's prisons are brimming with young blacks convicted of crimes that bring puny financial rewards and huge penalties. A typical convenience-store stickup yields only $402, but armed robbers, once convicted, serve an average of 41 months pumping iron in a tough maximum-security prison. That translates to about 30 days in prison for every stolen dollar, which any M.B.A. knows is an unacceptable balance between profit and risk...
...worth of Patriot missiles to South Korea and replaced older Cobra helicopter gunships with new, more potent Apaches. Pentagon officials say all key ports and airfields are being fine-tuned for action. Fuel supplies and depots are being topped off at maximum capacity. The U.S. has withdrawn older iron bombs and replaced them with laser-guided weapons and other "smart bombs" of the kind that performed so well during the Gulf War. But efforts to persuade the South Koreans to redeploy some of their troops away from the DMZ have failed...
...Fernald State School researchers feed 17 Fernald students radioactive iron tracers in the milk served over their cereal...
...call "Nazi-skins" invaded Casa del popolo, a social center for immigrants. Shouting "Bastards, we're going to kill you," they threatened to throw Molotov cocktails into the building on the Via di Valle Aurelia. A 17- year-old immigrant suffered serious head injuries after being bludgeoned with an iron...
...hearing, Harvard officials also decried extensive efforts to iron out the difficulties with the Walters...