Word: spike
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Congress made an agreeable discovery three years ago. Early in 1994, in an abrupt statistical spike, voters in large numbers started saying that crime was their No. 1 concern. So when the House and Senate passed the omnibus crime bill later that year, people actually noticed. Which is one reason why, in a sluggish political summer, when Washington is competing with Mars and Mike Tyson for some quality time with the rest of America, Congress is going after crime again. In May the House passed a bill that would give $1.6 billion to states that agree to toughen their handling...
...announcement came a day after the release of Four Little Girls, a Spike Lee documentary that is generating renewed interest in the crime. Investigators say the timing is coincidental. The bombing holds a special place in civil rights history not only because of its brutality and the youth of its victims, but also because it so bitterly dashed the hopes for nonviolent progress that had been raised only weeks before, when Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Lewis says it is important that investigators continue to pursue the case until...
...YORK CITY: Bad news for Spike Lee: Before a courtroom packed with anxious Knicks fans, a federal judge refused to reverse the suspensions of four New York Knicks involved in Wednesday's melee with the Miami Heat. After a 90 minute hearing between the NBA and the National Basketball Players' Association, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that league commissioner David Stern had complete authority to hand down the suspensions. The players claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union...
...again? Trouble is, Blair's view that employees should be permitted to join a union if a majority vote to do so is neither new nor particularly objectionable. Still, Blair reasoned, simply stating the facts might not do the trick--and he dearly wanted to spike the Tory attack since it struck at the very heart of his hard-won Labour Party reforms...
...being more tolerant than the South. Yet when Robinson entered the field, he was incessantly mocked and jeered in the North where all of the major league teams were located. Pitchers threw inside to intimidate him; fans released black cats onto the field; opposing players repeatedly attempted to spike him, once causing a seven-inch gash on Robinson's leg. Moreover, countless teams tried organizing boycotts to prevent Robinson from playing on their fields...