Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reduced sentences for about 600 prisoners, some of them political. For the first time in more than two decades, he allowed the Socialists to help administer the elections. He also permitted them and the tiny Communist Party to buy commercial time on the air waves. Even the Communist newspaper Al Bayane conceded that the campaign "was the cleanest that has ever been seen." The King has described his overall strategy: "I am going to subvert by democratic means people's natural instincts toward anarchy...
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Bill Bradley and Jack Kemp didn't get where they are today because they went to college. Surely it may have helped, but they had something else, something we al appears. At the same time, however, we should not impose unrealistic expectations and requirements on people who are simply, and very happily, just plain athletes...
Earlier in the century, the state was heavily Republican, voting for the GOP through 1928. In 1924, the state offered up the Republican's Republican. Calvin Coolidge. As the largely Irish Democrats gained strength from the first Irish Catholic Presidential candidate, Al Smith in 1928, and the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the two parties fought to a stalemate in the state through the fifties...
...after nearly four years of retrenchment, Nestlé (1983 sales: $12.7 billion) is once again hungry to add American names to its list of bestselling brands, which includes Nescafé, Quik, Nestea and L'Oréal. In January, Nestlé acquired Ward-Johnston, the candy company that produces such matinee munchies as Raisinets, Goobers and Sno-Caps, and in April it signed an agreement to buy Hills Bros, coffee. Last week the company announced plans to purchase Los Angeles-based Carnation, the leading maker of evaporated milk, for about $3 billion, or $83 a share. The deal will...