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Word: spree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those "things" were namely Scarlet Knight defenders, who spent much of the afternoon at the mercy of the Crimson's revamped transition game and offense. Sophomore attacker Liz Berkery continued her scoring spree with three goals and the rest of the Crimson did its share of damage, battering the Rutgers goal until the final buzzer...

Author: By Christopher Sanzone, | Title: W. Lax Rebounds, Beats Rutgers | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...even while they officially decry it. Mexico and the U.S., for example, have an extradition treaty similar to the U.S.-Canada pact. But in 1989, Mexican authorities received no guarantees of mercy from the U.S. before swiftly deporting Ramon Salcido, 29, who had escaped to Mexico after a killing spree in California. Last December, Salcido was convicted on seven counts of murder and sentenced to death. He has appealed and is in San Quentin Prison. In his case, Mexican officials felt that good cross-border relations were more important than worries about one man's possible fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fate Better Than Death | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...very ones that filled Saddam's arsenal. Moreover, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait provided billions of the dollars that financed his weapons-buying binges. Through the '80s, communist dictators, Arab autocrats, South American generals and Western democrats alike opened their countries' weapons coffers to Saddam. The bills for his spending spree, which built Iraq into the world's fourth-ranking military power, totaled more than $50 billion -- and that figure refers only to sales of conventional weapons. Some $15 billion more went toward the covert purchase of materials to develop chemical and biological weapons. Who armed Saddam? Says Anthony Cordesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arsenal: Who Armed Baghdad | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...sales tax, one of the nation's highest, which once compensated handsomely for the fact that the state had no income tax. With consumers on a buying binge, the state could afford to let spending rise 59% between 1984 and '88. Then recession hit, the shopping spree ended and sales- tax revenue was reduced to a trickle. For this fiscal year, Connecticut is looking at a $500 million shortfall, which is expected to triple in the next. That would amount to 20% of the state's projected $7.9 billion budget for fiscal 1991, proportionately the highest deficit acknowledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of the States: Broke | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...first shock came when police arrested eight young gang members for the slaying of Kimberly Rae Harbour, 26, who had been raped, beaten and stabbed more than 100 times. The second occurred with the discovery that the murder had been committed a month ago during a Halloween wilding spree but had been hushed up by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston: Double Standard? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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