Word: bested
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Barry's best hope to beat the charges is to argue that the Government entrapped him by enticing him to use cocaine. U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens, however, claims the sting was "scrupulously fair" and there is evidence that Barry was "predisposed" to obtain the crack. At the very least, Barry's credibility has suffered a crippling blow that could be exploited by his political opponents. Four Democrats have already declared their candidacy. If Barry runs and gets past them, he faces a formidable challenge from Republican Maurice Turner, a popular former police chief...
...that burning corn is O.K., but that growing it, at least the way it's grown now, is not. Lovins says the erosion modern farming causes eats two bushels of topsoil for every bushel of corn produced. Agricultural strip mining. So in his view, corn stoves may make the best sense only in regions where there's lots of corn (especially if it's rotting in silos) but few trees...
Benazir Bhutto was one of the best political stories of the 1980s. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the country's military ruler and the man who executed her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When Zia's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 opened the way for Pakistan's first regular elections in a decade, Bhutto, only 35 and the mother of a two-month-old son, led her father's Pakistan People's Party through a raucous campaign...
...tried to farm the Catskills' stony soil; the hotel owners who hit pay dirt in chopped liver; singers and comedians such as Eddie Fisher, Danny Kaye and Sid Caesar, who got their starts on Borscht Belt stages; the gamblers who fixed interhotel basketball games and corrupted some of the best college players of the early 1950s; and, finally, the real estate developers of the 1980s who subdivided a tradition...
...wasn't long before Blades joined the roster of young Latin musicians at Fania records, the leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...