Word: rows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retired service manager with Pitney Bowes. Jim Holian, 55, a gunstock manufacturer, grumbled that "instead of paying for kids to play basketball at 2 a.m., we should be building more prisons." Friends nodded furiously as Holian lambasted Clinton over the din of 500 shooters standing in a row 1.5 miles long and blasting away, part of a 10-day-long ritual slaughter of 4.5 million clay pigeons. The only thing thicker than the gunpowder that laced the air was the cynicism directed toward both Clinton and Congress. Said Bob Walden, 52, a retired supervisor: "It's not that...
...second day in a row, moderates lobbed eleventh-hour health-care bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George Mitchell's bill, centrist Senators announced plans to introduce a stripped-down, bipartisan bill that would not increase taxes or require that employers pay for workers' insurance. Just yesterday a group of House members introduced an even milder bill that would leave 26 million people uninsured. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says...
...then, apparently, he changed his mind. Around 7 a.m. on Friday, the Pensacola police caught him planting a row of little crosses on the grounds of the Ladies Clinic and demanded that he remove them; he complied. At 7:30, after receiving a distress call about the shooting, they encountered him walking down a highway away from the clinic. He had more than a dozen shotgun shells strapped to his leg, ankle and pocket. He refused to tell them where the gun was, police said. (They found one on the clinic lawn.) But he did say, "I know one thing...
Following weeks of impasse, House and Senate conferees finally settled their differences and agreed on a $30 billion crime bill. The compromise measure maintains a controversial ban on 19 assault weapons but drops an equally controversial provision that would have allowed death-row inmates to challenge their sentence on the basis of race discrimination...
...showing consumer spending slowing and inventories piling up in stores and factories, reversing a nine-month trend. The economic picture caused rallies in stocks and the 30-year treasury bond market -- overshadowing the dollar, which managed to stay above the 100-yen mark for the second day in a row...