Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...precious, to foul it with drugs." On the very day of his arrest, the mayor had attended a memorial service for a high school star athlete who was shot to death while walking in a drug-infested neighborhood. In 1989 drug-related mayhem contributed to an all-time city record of 437 homicides, a deadly total that could be exceeded this year. Last week, as the city suffered through its 28th murder since Jan. 1, Barry unaccountably asserted, "The war against crime and violence is succeeding...
Though N.R.A. membership has declined by 300,000 since 1984, the group set a fund-raising record of $15 million in 1989. It spent $1.5 million to defeat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race, and its efforts are credited with turning a portion of the vote against him. And since 1981, when Morton Grove, Ill., became the first American town to pass a comprehensive handgun ban, the N.R.A. has persuaded 38 states to pass pre-emptive laws that prohibit similar actions by local communities...
Harvard (6-8 overall, 2-1 Ivy) hopes to wrest first place from the firm fists of the Big Green (8-6 overall, 3-0 Ivy). Since Dartmouth remains the lone undefeated team in Ivy league play, this won't be an easy task. Besides the Big Green's record, the Crimson also must contend with the cycles of recent history...
...Jackson said he would not run. His ties with the D.C. mayor run deep, and even Barry's unrelieved record of scandal and corruption evidently could not persuade Jackson to cross his old friend...
...spots in both polls are held by the Crimson's two NCAA Final Four opponents from last season--Michigan State (1st with a 23-4-2 record) and Minnesota...