Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could plug your ears with a Walkman and crank up a Def Leppard CD to 10--and still you'd hear the little tinny yap-yap of some office seeker promising cleaner streets, safer subways, cavity-free teeth. There was no end to the talking. It was inescapable, depressing, mind numbing. Those were the days! Now it's worse, much worse. Now they listen...
...Never mind all those mayors who brag about the results of their tough-on-crime initiatives. A pair of respected researchers has come up with a startling alternative explanation for the recent drop in crime--those most likely to commit it were never born...
...that Starr?s aides were asking about whether Justice, after all this time on the sidelines, would be interested in taking over an unfinished case (it isn?t). And ABC News reported Tuesday that Starr would simply anoint a new leader ? and in fact has three successors in mind already...
...insisted ? that not only was the espionage case against Lee "built on thin air," but that the Taiwan-born scientist also had been scapegoated because of his race. Vrooman won?t get into the nitty-gritty of the case ? top secret, and all that ? but he didn?t mind saying that Lee?s ethnicity was "a major factor." Vrooman claimed to have counted 13 white scientists at Los Alamos who made the same visits to China as Lee and talked to the same Chinese scientists. None were part of the investigation. But TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon reminds that none...
...There?s a poignancy to it, the fact that he?s spent six years on this quest, never held another job in all that time," he says. "And there?s also something self-delusional about it. You have some scenario in mind in which you?re about to catch fire, if only this would happen, if only that would happen. But sometimes, it never does. The voters rejected him last time, they rejected him this time. So it shouldn?t surprise us too much." It?s a sign of this year?s supercharged cycle that even a campaign as long...