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...know if it will be a good thing or a bad thing," Gustafson said about the lockout which threatens to wipe out the 1994-1995 NHL season. "It concerns all of us graduating next year, especially if things don't get cleared up by the end of this season...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: From Birth to Beanpot, Gustafson Carries Stick | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...arms. The Ku Klux Klan, for example -- born as a social club and quickly evolving into a militia, recruiting members through appeals to patriotism -- still thrives on hatred of blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics and foreigners. The moribund Posse Comitatus, a militant group based in the Farm Belt, wanted to wipe out the tax collectors. The patriots, by contrast, have a more generalized fear of Big Government, which they say is rapidly robbing individuals of their inalienable rights, chief among them the right to bear arms. Patriots were particularly enraged when Congress passed a crime bill last August that banned assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriot Games | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...negative effects of having more than one alcoholic drink per day may wipe out any benefits to the heart, says a new report. The 11-year study showed that any decreased risk of men dying from heart disease was offset by an increase in deaths from cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Nov. 28, 1994 | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...Wipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week November 6-12 | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Shirley and Earl McNall knew they had one hot little entrepreneur on their hands. Son Bruce was only five, and he could wipe everybody out at the Monopoly board, building hotels on all the expensive properties, leaving his mom stewing with an empty lot, say, on low-rent Baltic Avenue. Dazzled, the mother, a lab technician, and the father, a biochemistry professor at the University of Southern California, rationed Bruce's television watching and showered him with intellectual goodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce McNall: Fall of the Collector | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

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