Word: wave
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Since New Year's Day, Washington has seen 55 murders, and City Council Chairman David Clarke has proposed a radical solution to the wave of homicides. Last week he introduced a bill that would further strengthen the city's tough gun-control laws by extending a legal doctrine called "strict liability" to firearms. The law would classify guns as inherently dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through...
Perhaps publishers really believe that a model carrying a surfboard sheds light on some vital aspect of either surfing or current beach fashion. But the more probable explanation for the wave of February cheesecake issues is money...
When Patrick Purdy sprayed 100 or so bullets from a rapid-fire assault rifle into a crowd of children outside a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, killing five students and wounding 29 others and one teacher before dispatching himself with a pistol, he set off a national wave of horror. If tots playing innocently in a schoolyard at recess are no longer safe from heavily armed criminals and lunatics, who is? Many citizens concluded that no one is, and some on the West Coast resolved to take action. Their solution: to arm themselves for survival in a world seemingly gone...
...Wall Street one new breed of economists looks at the same unexpected events and comes up with a rosier outlook on how the world works. In this view, the U.S. has entered an era of prosperity called the New Wave. "We are in one of the most revolutionary periods in our history," says Sam Nakagama, chairman of Nakagama & Wallace, an economic consulting firm in Manhattan. Nakagama and other New Wave advocates say the record expansion owes its strength and resilience to the openness of the U.S. economy during the past decade. With the global village linked by high-speed computers...
...done hundreds of times before, Reagan walked along the Rose Garden, savoring the crisp morning air and glancing at gardener Irvin Williams' meticulous winter designs. But this time Reagan slowed, turned right and left to wave one more time. Halfway down the colonnade, he suddenly faced away, picked up his gait and, never looking back, went to meet the Bushes and take them to the Capitol to yield the presidency to his personally chosen successor...