Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final tip, though it seems obvious: DON'T bring you SAT scores. Just don't. Please...
...drug panic that swept America in 1986, following the rapid spread of crack sales through major urban areas. Ironically, it was the cocaine death that summer of Len Bias, a promising basketball player who had recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill was passed without careful consideration of the issues...
...certain individuals, especially when they are well liked, regarded as good flyers or hold high rank." His report to Defense Secretary William Perry, Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall and the congressional armed services panels makes clear that the problem is widespread. "These cases," he told them, "are just the tip of the iceberg...
...works, all of which are remarkable for their careful, precise, yet unpedantic construction. This is one of the finest. No still life was ever so still. The black space behind the framing window looks infinitely deep; two of the objects (the slice of melon and the yellow tip of the cucumber) stick out a little into our space. Everything is painted with self-abnegating care, warts and all, becoming a tiny sample of the world as a marvel: not through weirdness or preciousness (as in the curio cabinets of the great) but through its ordinary, even blemished, but always singular...
...federal prison that holds the other suspect in the case, Timothy McVeigh, an old Army buddy with whom Nichols apparently shared a strong dislike of the government. Meanwhile, federal agents in Arizona arrested Steven Colbern, a biochemist, on unrelated weapons charges. He was picked up after investigators received a tip that Colbern owns a brown pickup truck similar to one a witness claims to have seen escorting McVeigh prior to his arrest...