Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson began the afternoon with a sweep of the three doubles matches...
Exactly 712 students were arrested in the first sweep. But thousands of others assembled to watch the arrests, chanting anti-police slogans . In violation of prearranged agreement between police and administrators, officers charged the crowd of students and injured many in their attempts to clear the area...
...public-housing projects. In the Robert Taylor Homes just south of Stateway Gardens, Ray Goodwin, 9, describes how one of his friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens in only four days...
ACLU lawyer Harvey Grossman protests that "doing searches of apartments is a meaningless gesture. Weapons come back." Tom Sullivan, a lawyer for pro- sweep residents, agrees that the searches are only "a Band-Aid." Even Vincent Lane, chairman of the Chicago housing authority, thinks a long-run solution would have to be really drastic: "We ought to be looking for ways to get rid of the Robert Taylor Homes of the world and provide ((different)) housing for poor people...
...fancy Tokyo restaurant, confiding to his dining partners that he wanted to quit. His indiscretion was immediately leaked to the press, prompting an official denial that same night. Three days later, however, Hosokawa set his resignation in motion. A popular reformer who came to power last August pledging to sweep out "money politics" was outrun by a scandal of his own making...