Word: crackdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York has 1.9 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Hillary's presence in the race would whip them into a frenzy. Among the Democrats' core constituencies--Manhattan liberals, women, unions and minorities--Hillary would bury Giuliani. The mayor's relations with blacks, especially, are precarious. The city's crackdown on crime has led to an increase in complaints against police and a sense of siege among blacks. The police shooting last month of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant, has ignited passions. Though the crisis will be over long before the election--replaced, no doubt, by some other...
...must know then that 24 hours earlier, I was getting the lowdown on her profession from two of New York's Finest. Over a late lunch at the Tick Tock Diner, Detective Ralph Aiello briefed me about his undercover work for Operation Crystal Ball, a crackdown on exploitative fortunetellers. "They're like vultures on the African plain," says Aiello. His boss, Lieutenant Robert Groth, in a sleek blue suit and crisp haircut, puts it simply: "They're professional con artists...
...this is February, it must be crackdown-on-drunken-drivers month. Three motorists arrested on charges of drunken driving had their cars seized on the spot by the NYPD on Monday, Day 1 of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's new 'zero-tolerance' approach to DWI. "This is obviously an approach that will play to the bleachers," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. But since New York often seems to be governed from the bleachers, it may not be inappropriate...
...recent survey on student happiness, The Crimson mentions this role that the clubs play as well as the crackdown on room parties that have been taking place on campus. Shut the doors to non-members, and partying on campus becomes viewed as a privilege of the members of those clubs--the members of the old boy network...
...graduate president John W. Boynton '88 said the graduate board decided to take action because it thinks final clubs are increasingly becoming a center of social life in the wake of randomization and a crackdown on alcohol use in the Houses...