Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like in Tiananmen," says the student. "Deng wasn't actually there, right? He didn't actually kill any of us himself. But he gave the orders to have us killed. He caused...
Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...
...true, as Gitell claims, that "each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner...
...insistence by some masters that diversity was not a problem--and their refusal to participate--helped kill the 25 percent randomization proposal last year...
Even worse, drugs--and the inner-city gangs they support--kill innocent victims, such as nine-year-old Tiffany Moore, who was gunned down as she sat on a mailbox early one August evening last year. The girl's only crime was sitting in the middle of a gang war near Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury...