Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Massachusetts voters outlaw rent control in November, the ben would affect 16,000 Cambridge households--half its rental stock--and a quarter of the city's population, according to the executive director of the city's rent control board...
...things getting a little tense in a certain embargoed outlaw country? According to a report in the Middle East Economic Survey today, Saddam Hussein has fired Iraq's planning minister for publishing an official report that the nation's inflation has reached astronomical levels -- 24,000 percent. The U.N. trade embargo imposed before the start of the Gulf War seems to be taking its toll: Saddam fired his agriculture minister in May for failing to check the skyrocketing price of food...
...even if one can understand the President's inability to block the spread of nuclear weapons, it is harder to understand his leaving us defenseless should they ever be fired our way. If we cannot deny outlaw states the Bomb, why are we not defending ourselves against...
...Soviet Union is gone. The arms race between us is over. The U.S. and Russia are not even aiming missiles at each other. They are aimed at sea, so that even an accidental launch would destroy only fish. The coming threat emanates from elsewhere, from small, determined outlaw states such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq. And before that threat we are helpless...
...move left Bill Clinton fumbling for an effective retort just when he had adopted stern new measures himself. He had persuaded the United Nations to harden sanctions against Haiti's outlaw regime. He had announced a new asylum policy that would end the unpopular practice of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees without a hearing. He had appointed William Gray III, head of the United Negro College Fund, as Washington's new Haiti czar. Now he dangled threats of a military invasion of the island nation...