Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Chambers was arrested for killing Levin in August 1986, he claimed that the girl's death was her own fault: she hurt him so badly during a kinky sex act, said Chambers, that he inadvertently struck her, crushing her windpipe. Chambers had met Levin in an Upper East Side bar; later they went to Central Park, where her battered, partially nude body was discovered. The "preppie murder" drew national attention to underage drinking and sex in New York's prep school...
...passed legislation similar to Seattle's. Rather than specifically target begging, however, Portland forbids offensive physical contact or behavior that might cause a person reasonably to fear such contact. Unlike Seattle's law, Portland's solution has stirred little controversy. "It's a law that applies equally to obnoxious upper-class people coming out of a bar and hassling women," says Richard Meyer, executive director of Burnside Community Council, a local homeless-advocacy group...
...classiest retail stores in the U.S. He compiled the list as a way of enforcing a November trademark-infringement ruling in which he prohibited the toniest U.S. stores from selling Elizabeth Taylor's new fragrance, called Passion (price: $165 per oz. of perfume). Sweet had ruled that the upper-crust marketplace already belonged to an older Passion ($270), which the French firm Annick Goutal has marketed in the U.S. since...
...proposes to shrink the Federal Government to a size Americans are willing to pay for out of pocket: without borrowing, driving up interest rates and choking the economy. He would accomplish this mainly by "needs-testing" social spending so that more goes to the poor rather than to the upper and middle classes, who now consume nearly a third of the federal budget. He would, for example, raise taxes on Social Security benefits for couples earning more than $32,000 a year. "Just as we have had progressive income taxes, we should have progressive Government benefits," Babbitt explains. "Why should...
...Prince Abdullah professed pride in the "struggle of the brotherly Palestinian people." There were calls for new terrorist attacks from Israel's neighbors. On Friday evening three Arab raiders, members of Abu Abas' Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heeded that call and crossed into Israel from the upper Jordan Valley. They were apprehended after a brief fire fight...