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...months. The contest hardly seemed equal: with 2.7 million members and an annual budget of $86 million, the giant N.R.A. seemed to tower over the bantamweight gun-control group, which has only 1 million members and a $6.5 million budget. But after the smoke cleared from last week's shootout on Capitol Hill, advocates of gun control had triumphed in a surprisingly lopsided 239-186 House vote for the so-called Brady bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blow to The N.R.A. | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

After squeaking by the Eagles, 5-4, behind Chuckie Hughes' 38 saves, the Crimson won a 9-6 shootout over the Terriers in the final, removing the eight-year-old monkey from then-Harvard Coach Bill Cleary's broad shoulders...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Iceman Hope For Return To '89 Glory | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Sign Him Up!:During the second intermission, 10-year old Larry Dolan gave the fans something to really scream over. As an entry in the WIC Shootout--a contest sponsored by a local radio station--Dolan managed to score three times in 20 seconds from the blue line. This total topped his opponent, Colby Whitaker (8) by one--and tied the Crimson's efforts over the entire 60 minutes...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Weisbrod To Miss at Least Three Weeks | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

BOSTON--A Jamaica Plain man is dead after a weekend shootout with undercover police that also left three officers injured, two of them with gunshot wounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jamaica Plain Man Killed in Shootout | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...offers. He promised to release the women and children among Iraq's foreign hostages -- at week's end hundreds of them were ferried out of the country -- and said he would let the men go too, if only the U.S. would swear not to attack Iraq. To avoid a shootout on the seas, Saddam instructed his ships to submit to searches by Western vessels enforcing the U.N. economic sanctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Pausing at the Rim of the Abyss | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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