Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human beings within this urban area who could be so productive and helpful to humanity but are being lost," says Sweeny. "We have kids 13 and 14 years old who are as hardened as anyone in a penitentiary. Look into their eyes, and you see these cold blank stares, void of most moral values. The drug trade has shown them that in a little time they can make a lot of money, and they've accepted the violence that goes with...
...rival cocaine refiners in Cali and elsewhere have stepped in to fill the void. Raw coca from Bolivia and Peru is plentiful and will remain so. Leaders of the Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality...
...govern virtually by decree amount to the unheard roars of a paper tiger. In some cases the Kremlin and the republics have been playing out a ritualized farce. The center, as it is now called, issues a Gorbachev decree; one or more republics declare it to be null and void on their territory; Gorbachev issues a second order declaring that these null-and-void declarations are themselves null and void...
...negligent" and "reckless" speech be dropped, reasoning that a finding for the plaintiff on those grounds could have a chilling effect on First Amendment freedoms. A.C.L.U. lawyer Michael H. Simon adds, however, that adequate proof that Tom Metzger intended to cause serious harm by sending agents to Oregon would void his concern...
Writing rushed in to fill the void that had been occupied by drugs. Her first sprawling demi-autobiographical outpourings were bound and ungagged between the covers of Postcards in 1987. The gist of the haywire parable is that fame and fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...