Word: subway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Subway Steal...
...meeting that followed the Frug slaying, Cambridge Police Lt. Harold Murphy reported three other recent assaults on area women, including a sexual assault in nearby Somerville, a sexual assault near the Alewife subway station on the Arlington-Cambridge border and an assault and attempted kidnapping in the parking lot of the Porter Square Galleria...
...named after you, Desert Storm ice cream flavors. You who wrote to us of your fears of coming home should not worry. No one will spit on you. You will not be called baby killers, and we promise that you will not grow old holding a sign in a subway station: I'M A VETERAN. CAN YOU SPARE SOME CHANGE...
Yeltsin toiled diligently to bring the capital's food supply and distribution system under control. He traveled the city by subway -- unheard of for a Politburo member -- and commuted from distant suburbs to check on transportation conditions for workers. He would even barge into meat stores to find out who was getting the best cuts. These shock tactics delighted ordinary Muscovites but infuriated the party "Mafia," an old-boy network of distribution officials and real-life gangsters...
...blasts signaled not only an intensification of the organization's drive to oust the British from Northern Ireland but also a return to the tactics of the 1970s when civilian targets, including train and subway stations, were hit indiscriminately. That strategy was abandoned after a 1983 car bomb outside Harrods department store killed six people and caused a wave of revulsion against the I.R.A. But authorities fear that frustrated hard-liners have once again decided that bloody activity on the mainland is a far more effective way to prove that British rule in Ireland is untenable...