Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Striking every week or two, in the early morning hours, on weekends, the burglar would smash the front door windows of jewelry and clothing stores, grab as much as possible within a minute or two, then flee in a vehicle," according to the CPD statement. The following is a selection from the police logs of the Cambridge Police Department from April 12 to April...
According to its mission statement, the alliance would not be campaign-specific, but would focus upon fostering campus labor activism in general...
...laying mines along Kosovo's borders within sight of Western television cameras. The mining operation is probably also designed to help stop such incidents as the spasm of fighting that broke out late last week between Serbian forces and Albanian-based K.L.A. forces. The Yugoslav military issued a furious statement decrying the "aggression"--and reportedly lobbed some artillery shells into Albania for good measure. The image of a well-trained and well-financed K.L.A. using bases in Macedonia and Albania to fight the Serbs clearly haunts Belgrade...
Since then, like any good meme, it has infected the culture. To quantify this "metamemetic" statement, I did a quick search of the World Wide Web. The adjectival form "memetic" clocked up 5,042 mentions. To put this into perspective, I compared a few other recently coined words or fashionable expressions. Spin doctor (or spin-doctor) got 1,412 mentions, dumbing down 3,905, docudrama (or docu-drama) 2,848, sociobiology 6,679, zippergate 1,752, studmuffin 776, post-structural (or poststructural...
...Electra's publicist issues Rodman statement saying he's happily...