Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rauch, who until recently was stationed in Latin America: "Almost anyone who has lived in or near the crowded barrios of South America knows that looting on the scale that occurred in New York could almost never happen there?and not because the army would be standing by to shoot looters. Family structure has not broken down in South America. Nor has the idea of a neighborhood. A child usually feels that he lives in both in a Latin American city. In a U.S. urban ghetto, he often belongs to neither...
Belarus salesmen downplay the origin of the tractors (though it is hardly a secret: name plates, partly in Cyrillic lettering, identify them as MADE IN THE U.S.S.R.) and often counsel reluctant customers that "it's better to trade than to shoot." Nonetheless, Chambers admits that some farmers simply refuse to consider buying "Commie tractors." Others find that practical considerations outweigh ideology. At prices typically ranging from $4,600 to $12,000, Belarus' line of five models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk...
...testimony, Lance tried to shoot down the charges against him, one by one. He maintained that the deposit of the Georgia bank's funds in Chicago's First National was a "normal banking relationship" and had no connection with his personal loan. Noting that the interest rate on the loan is three-quarters of a percentage point above the prime rate, he declared: "It is payable quarterly, it is a demand note, and I think it is a proper rate...
...British know the right thing to do. Smith is a rebel, and they should do what they did in America-line the rebels up against the wall and shoot them...
...turn on an E.D.P. machine. Inventors are testing complicated locks utilizing algorithmic principles. But even the most sophisticated security device cannot stop an unscrupulous employee with legitimate access to the machine and its workings. As one expert jokes, "Ideally, the first step in securing a system would be to shoot the programmer...