Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials and Sacramento, Calif. police squelched speculation thatthe Unabomberwas caught on a police videotape. The Los Angeles Times reported today that in April, police had taped bystanders in the area where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed by a bomb made by the terrorist. The man in question, who hurried away when he realized he was being photographed, bears a slight resemblance to the police sketch of the bomber, which itself is based on a brief sighting in 1987. But police now say the unidentified man appears to be about15 years older than the bomber is believed...
...LATEST PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1? THE unwed mom. "The epidemic of illegitimacy is our most serious social problem," says Bill Clinton. "It drives everything else," says Charles Murray, the conservative sociologist--"crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare, homelessness...
What does O'Neill say of the Rutgers work? "There are lots of ways to look at data, and I haven't seen their report," she says, although a copy was sent to her last week. Charles Murray, who glowingly accepted O'Neill's work when it first appeared, now says, "I never thought some small family-cap disincentive would work. I think the key to what's happening here is the growing stigma that's attaching to illegitimacy across the population." The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who more than anyone else used O'Neill's work to urge...
What Jobu sees is truly extraordinary: four of the Top 10 batting averages in the American League (Ramirez, Baerga, Lofton and Jim Thome), two certain Hall of Famers (Eddie Murray and Dave Winfield), and a guy so good they just named a candy bar after him--the Albert Belle Bar. If the pitching holds up, the Indians-who had a 6-1/2-game lead on the Kansas City Royals in the A.L. Central as of Friday-should finish first for the first time since...
...book's thesis sparked many protests, andthe Black Students association organized a rallyon Widener's steps and walked out of Murray'sdiscussion of the book...