Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looming question in many minds was what, if anything, people could do to protect themselves when children were no longer safe in their beds. "New Yorkers can put up with dirty streets, poor schools and broken subways," warns Mitchell Moss, director of the urban research center at New York University. "But New Yorkers cannot take uncertainty -- risks, yes, but not uncertainty...
...leaders to the surge of mayhem. Like everyone else in New York, Mayor David Dinkins and his handpicked police commissioner, Lee Brown, seem at a loss for remedies to the worst crime wave to hit the city in a decade. "New York is in desperate need of leadership," says Moss, "and it simply isn't there." A TIME/CNN poll of New Yorkers taken during this summer's rash of killings showed that only 47% approved of Dinkins' performance, and an equal number believed he is no different or worse than his abrasive predecessor, Edward I. Koch...
...Macon's collapsed frame in sand 1,450 ft. beneath the surface off Point Sur, 100 miles south of San Francisco. A fisherman, Dave Canepa, had netted scraps of wreckage from the site in the late 1970s. They had hung for years in Jeanne B's restaurant in Moss Landing. Several years ago, the alert wife of oceanographer Christopher Grech saw the relics and told her husband. He found Canepa, who recalled where he had snagged the pieces. The Navy's sub crew located the Macon on its first dive. Several museums have proposed joint recovery operations with the Navy...
...gods of poker are not impressed. Preston bumps a pair of queens, and the last $3,500 of his $10,000 stake, against what turns out to be a pair of kings. Now Slim is out of the action, and so is 83-year-old Johnny Moss of Odessa, Texas, a three-time champion with the smile of a crocodile. Earlier, Moss had said, "I like my chances better than anybody's. If a man can go high, I can go higher." Not this time...
...opportunities constrict, the impulse to blame other racial groups can become overwhelming -- and the temptation to exploit such resentments can become irresistible to some unscrupulous leaders. When elected officials fail to provide effective leadership, says Moss, "the street merchants of hate move into the vacuum." Last week Dinkins mused about his role in repairing the cracks in New York's gorgeous mosaic. Said he: "No one ever knows if one has done enough." That realization could be the start of doing something more...