Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shoplifters say the free-range policy makes stealing easier. Instructs a senior woman, "What you do is go in, you take something, you walk around to a different part of the store, then you go out." This technique has proven so successful, she claims, that "it was because of me that they moved the health and beauty aid section to the basement...
Over its history, the course has proven especially enticing to gut been involved with the Cambridge Kids' Counciland the Cambridge Human Rights Ordinance. Wolf wasalso on the national board of directors for theNational League of Cities...
...might call the affair Wounded Knee, if that name weren't already taken by some trifling affair involving the loss of several human lives. But the Kerrigan-Harding incident has proven that the American press and public, their thirst for blood slaked on the ubiquitous undercurrent of random violence, have decided that mere carnage is not sufficient qualification for an enduring spot in the news and popular imagination...
...media frenzy this story has touched off raises the interesting question of why this particular act has proven to be so enthralling. "Why me?" screamed a recent Newsweek cover featuring a tearful head-shot of the slightly-maimed skater. "Why this story?" might be a better question. The incident has been proclaimed a "tragedy" over and over again; yet no one is dead or even seriously wounded. The animus of the plot--namely, hindering one's competition by underhanded means--is by no means extraordinary. In North America's other on-ice sport, certain players are retained specifically for this...
...handguns were banned, life would be a lot easier for police and district attorneys. The federal government could establish stiff penalties for mere ownership of a handgun. Suspects in serious felonies would face strict jail terms on an easily proven charge of possession, regardless of the outcome of the larger investigation...