Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to one of Leopold's best PR men, Henry Shelton Sanford--in order to create "a chain of posts or hospices, both hospitable and scientific, which should serve as means of information and aid to travelers...and ultimately, by their humanizing influences, to secure the abolition of the traffic in slaves." Stanley was the first to betray this rhetoric in service to Leopold by relentlessly pursuing the wealth of ivory and, later, rubber...
...life could be easily monitored and destroyed by a voyeuristic agency with the right technology and intelligence. The threat of terrorism increased by such atrocities as the Oklahoma City bombing has set some lawmakers into a fearful frenzy over preventive measures. And with cameras sitting on the top of traffic signals at intersections in England, can such surveillance techniques become policy in the United States? Is privacy an eroding right in the age of pervasive and powerful technology? These are interesting questions raised by Enemy of the State, and will no doubt be issues debated on the floor of Congress...
...already on parole after his 1992 rape conviction, tries to eat his way to a heavyweight title and receives a one-year suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. On Tuesday Tyson pleaded no contest to a charge that he kicked and punched two men after an August, 1998 traffic alteration, a plea that threatens to land him back in prison...
...Monti 0-0 0-0 0;Gates 3-8 1-2 8; Kinneen 0-1 0-0 0; Zitnik 0-2 0-0 0, Larkworthy 0-2 0-0 0; Ryba 0-0 0-0 0.TOTALS:19-54 7-10 51.CrimsonSeth H. PerlmanTHE FULL MONTI: Freshman point guardJENNIFER MONTI directs traffic...
...virtues distinguish Munro's work. First, she packs more life into 30 pages than most novelists get into 300. And she does it writing about her native region, homely farm-town Ontario. Second, she moves her characters through time and space with the calm and precision of an air-traffic controller. Third, she writes mostly about women at turning points and points of no return...