Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people are walking around worried." A producer for ABC News's 20/20 program said, "Capital Cities has a reputation for being a very lean company. They have no corporate legal department, they have no personnel department--none of the accoutrements of a big corporation." Capital Cities may take a knife to the $750 million that ABC executives fancied spending on the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988. That is more than twice what ABC has agreed to pay to cover the Calgary Winter Games that year...
...hour he had his audience doing "relevant anecdotal exercises" and "ad libs for awkward moments." The audience plunged in with happy abandon, though the wit sometimes was about as sharp as a filleting knife left out in the yard for a year...
...Oregon police, Mary described a melodrama in which she played Little Nell to a mugger of undetermined size and indistinguishable features who jumped from his bicycle and knocked her down almost in the fashion of Zola Budd, savaging the same hip. He threatened to kill her with a knife but she escaped to flag down the car of an elderly couple, whose names...
...deserved stern examination--if Congress had the nerve. Nor were his remarks inconsistent with the philosophy behind the President's budget, with its $51 billion in reductions of outlays for almost every domestic program except Social Security. Many groups who have never felt the full extent of the budget knife complained loudly about the proposed cuts. Congress has already more than hinted to the President that he will not get many of the reductions he has asked for, nor all of his proposed increases for the military...
Last October a white officer shot and killed Eleanor Bumpurs, 66, an emotionally disturbed black woman who allegedly lunged at a second officer with a ten-inch knife while police were evicting her from her apartment. Ward ordered new procedures for handling such cases, but found that the officer who fired acted properly. A grand jury disagreed and indicted him two weeks ago. Ward suspended the officer pending trial and then reinstated him in a desk job. The commissioner's backing and filling has some black leaders complaining that he is an "Uncle Tom." His officers, for their part, last...