Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walter Mondale became serious about cigars when he was in the Senate. His taste was, well, rather random. He took anything offered. Once he became Vice President, he had access to the really fine leaves, like Hoyo de Monterrey. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who relished the Cubans and other top grades, tutored Mondale. "You better take advantage of the good cigars," he counseled. "You don't get much else in that job." Mondale listened...
...officials during a meeting in Moscow in April was a third message from Sakharov requesting temporary refuge for his wife in the embassy. The dissident physicist apparently feared that the KGB would take actions against Bonner if he went on a hunger strike. He also wanted her to have access to American medical care...
Without a violation of a t.r.o., police are reluctant to arrest abusers. By curtailing a woman's access to the t.r.o., which carries with it the promise of swift police action upon violation, Massachusetts would be failing go take what appears to be the best tactic for prevention of domestic violence...
...proposed a monthly charge of $2 for residences and small businesses and $6 for larger firms. In September AT&T proposed cutting its long-distance rates by as much as 10.5%, or $1.75 billion, in the expectation that the FCC would put into effect the so-called access fees. But Congress effectively blocked their imposition in the face of public pressure over...
University libraries old volumes, pamphlets and broadsides proclaiming and arguing an enormous range of viewpoints. So, too, should universities be open to speakers of every persuasion. The university community deserves the same access to the arguments of every invited speaker as it has to those of the authors on its library shelves, no matter how platitudinous, subversive or immoral...