Word: swath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pizza Man refused to deliver to her grandson William Fobbs at his home in a predominantly black area near Candlestick Park. The Domino's franchise, like most Domino's Pizzas across the country, used a software system that color-codes streets according to risk; a large swath of Fobbs' neighborhood had been "red-zoned," meaning it was deemed too dangerous to serve...
Each day, as the Earth turns, the BETA (for Billion-channel Extra-Terrestrial Assay) telescope sweeps a circular swath through the heavens, elevated at a slightly different fixed angle from the horizon with each successive turn. During each circuit it captures radio waves reaching Earth at frequencies between 1400 and 1720 megahertz--a broad but relatively "quiet" region of the radio spectrum. "In the 1960s we were looking in a few niches and hoping the extraterrestrials had put their jewels there," says astronomer Frank Drake, who launched the first SETI project in 1960. "They didn't. Now we are doing...
...serving sentences for abuse. But she has subsequently fingered more than 80 other adults, including the Robersons, and Perez has recruited several other children to corroborate her charges. These were made in unrecorded conversations with Perez and in one tour around town, during which D.E. accused a large swath of the population and pointed to 23 places as sites of her attacks. As a result of what came to be known as "the drive-by," 3,200 charges of child abuse were lodged against one woman alone. Kathryn Lyon, a public defender who has investigated the charges and written...
...before the cease-fire Serbs unleashed an ethnic cleansing campaign in the northwest border areas that is shocking even by Balkan standards," reports Edward Barnes. "Those who survived the week said Serb police and army units systematically broke into virtually all the Croat and Muslim homes in a wide swath from Sanski Most to Banja Luka. Most people were given ten minutes to leave their homes in what soldiers told them was the final cleansing. Once the process began, there was utter chaos. Soldiers, they say, went on a looting spree, stealing everything they could carry, engaging in indiscriminate beatings...
...Croats, with whom they are allied, have dealt their enemy a serious blow; the Croats have also liberated Bihac, a Bosnian town that the Serbs besieged for 1,201 days; at the same time, however, the Muslims are wary that Croatia may want to carve out a large swath of Bosnia for itself...