Word: swat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate, but it does not mean that the Fly Club is right in excluding women," said Jeanne F. Theoharis '91, president of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), a student group opposed to the nine final clubs' admissions practices. "Justice must be served...
Activists--particularly members of SWAT, which was added as a party to the complaint last spring--said they planned to force the club to admit women through public pressure and legal means...
Watson, 40, has served with distinction in virtually every division, from the SWAT team to auto theft to homicide. In one instance she performed with such diligence that she was nicknamed "By-the-Book Betsy." She is taking over a force plagued by morale problems. As a result of the oil bust, Houston's cops are among the worst paid (starting salary: $20,755.80) of those in the nation's top 20 cities...
...where as many as a quarter of a million people died of hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. Once again the world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped against herding sticks, too weary to take another step...
...controversy over the Kennedy highlights Washington's enthusiasm for enlisting the military in the escalating war against drugs, as well as concerns that the Administration is using a sledgehammer to swat at mosquitoes. But U.S. officials insist that the Kennedy's mission was only to plot patterns of suspicious air and ship traffic off Colombia. That information would help position a network of mobile land radars, supplied by the U.S. but eventually operated by Colombians. Then the Kennedy task force would leave...