Word: rails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recalls walking on a rail over hundreds of rats, and then seeing one of the actors sitting down with hundreds of mice crawling all over...
...drug policy is insane. And no politician can stand up and say what I'm saying, because it's the third rail ? instant electrocution," says the multi-billionaire and Holocaust survivor, who added that he feels obliged to speak out when the world will listen. "I'm in a unique position," says Soros. "Therefore I have to do these things...
Cleveland's problems are not all behind it, but under White's administration, there is a clear sense that the city is on an upswing. Downtown boasts not only a new $72 million light rail line to move tourists along the lakeshore but also Gateway Complex, which features a new baseball stadium and a basketball arena that lured the Cleveland Cavaliers back from the suburbs. Most important, the city's long period of fiscal crisis has subsided. After a general fund deficit that grew to almost $7 million in 1990, the city has balanced its books and has accumulated...
BROOKLYN: In a shoot-out at an apartment in Brooklyn, police found five pipe bombs that may have been intended for a terrorist attack on New York's commuter rail system. The early-morning raid forced the evacuation of neighbors and closed down several rush-hour subway lines. Officers shot and wounded two of the three Middle Eastern men in the apartment during the assault. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani said one was shot when he appeared to be trying to detonate one of the explosive devices. Two of the men, identified as Jhazi Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, carried...
...center of the protest in a government class the fall of 1995, when he dressed in drag to rail against Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for his anti-gay comments at a prominent Colorado trial, his disdain for women's studies and his support of the controversial The Bell Curve...