Word: problem
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...your-face. That story appeared at a moment when the conduct of national affairs had collapsed into something armed and dangerous. It was 1968, just days after the murder of Robert Kennedy, and before him of Martin Luther King Jr., when the exit wound was becoming a standard problem in American politics. Though the bloodshed of those years emerged out of many causes, one of them was surely the long-standing American romance with guns--the mystique and abundance of firearms, and the ease with which they moved from one hand to another until they fell into the wrong ones...
...Bros. studio and this magazine, to read out loud the violent lyrics of Ice-T's Cop-Killer CD, distributed by the company. But Heston limited his attack on media violence to rap music and has had little to say about film or television. "I'm part of the problem," he acknowledges with a chuckle. Had he no qualms about accepting a part in True Lies, the notably violent 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? "No," he confesses. "It was an interesting part, and they paid me an obscene amount of money...
...fire when the gun's magazine was empty. The gun should have had a "loaded-chamber indicator" to make that clear, the family argues, along with "personalized gun" technology that would have prevented an unauthorized user--like the 14-year-old shooter--from firing it. The industry says the problem in the Dix case and others is that an adult should have kept the gun locked up. "The most important device with any gun is the brain of the person using it," says Richard Feldman, executive director of the industry-financed American Shooting Sports Council. "If you shut your brain...
Khatami's problem is that while he won the hearts of the people with a remarkable 70% of the popular vote, hard-liners retained all the instruments of state power: control of the army, the police and the courts, as well as the terrorist elements that have caused mayhem abroad. The fundamentalists also continue to hold a majority in the 270-member Iranian Parliament...
...Personal Electro-Sauna was sold via Hispanic television channels throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico by a company going by the names of Body Fitness Inc. and the TV Store Corp. The FDA, which only learned of the problem when a fire department reported of some suspicious apartment blazes, hastened to point out that it had not approved the product...