Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media market rife with three tabloid newspapers and half-a-dozen trashy local television news shows gobbled up the appalling incident and gave New York what they thought it wanted to see--the final showdown in a racial turf war that nobody could win, while ignoring the very real underlying problems which the incident represented...
Here's one from the files: Since Coach Stuyvesant Fish's 1870 Columbia squad lost to Rutgers, 6-3, in the days of post-Civil War America, the Lions have had 60 losing seasons. They've been over the .500 mark only 31 times...
...only did Alfonsin lead the nation out of the depths of the "dirty war" of the late 1970s and early 1980s and successfully prosecuted leading members of the brutal military junta responsible for the "disappearance" of more than 9000 alleged "subversives" during this period, but he also tried to democratize the unions. Predictably, his legislation calling for rank-and-file elections of union leaders was defeated by Peronist opposition in the Senate...
...unification. Only last week the E.C. warned of "worrying delays" by member countries in implementing single-market legislation. But Project 1992 has given fresh momentum to a process that has taken Western Europe further down the road to unity than could have been imagined in the aftermath of World War...
...crack of today. I hope that this admission, which does not come easily, will animate my behavior. But while I am willing to shoulder some of the blame on behalf of my generation, I trust that the other equally respectable co-conspirators in America's two-faced war on drugs will acknowledge their own complicity...