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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GORE would require licenses for buyers but not registration of the weapons themselves. Both want to ban "junk guns," but Gore doesn't attack the N.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nationwide Backlash | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...father are transferred to the son. It was from my father to me and from me to my son... I'm sure the details don't matter. There is no excuse, no good reason I am sure no one will understand. If they could I wouldn't want them to... You should kill me if you can." He took care of that himself, but not before arming himself with 200 rounds of ammo and a small collection of guns--a couple of which he had owned for years--and taking nine more people with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...their very being, will be jeopardized if they do not vote Smith in and Jones out. Once convinced, these folks in effect become the NRA in the shadows. They are the defense-oriented "little guys" of the American people, beset by Big Government, big laws and rich liberals who want to take away the only power they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Rid of the Damned Things | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...sheer firepower and tenacity of the rebels--led by Manuel ("Sureshot") Marulanda--have pinned down successive governments for 38 years and made Washington wary of involvement. "We don't want to get into another Vietnam down there," says a senior Army officer assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Right now, there's no guarantee the Colombian government is going to win, and we don't want to back the losers--again." After McCaffery's visit, however, it was still tough to spot the winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Carpet of Cocaine | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers use IM to swap homework tips and gossip; Internet start-ups employ it in lieu of a long-distance budget; home users love it for all those times you just don't want to pick up the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Shoot the Messages | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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