Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modestly in the limelight. But several years ago, his equanimity slipped when he heard that someone, somewhere, was planning to write his biography. "To take my life," he thought, "my lode of ore and heap of memories, from me!" If anyone was going to tell Updike's story, the author decided, it ought to be Updike...
...look at who gains from 1-2-3. Fred Meyer, who calls himself the author of Prop 1-2-3, may certainly be motivated by a personal ideology linking freedom with owning a condo, but most other supporters ($56,000 strong, according to the 1988 State Campaign Finance Report) are motivated by profit. Not surprisingly, among the list of financial contributors who helped get this condo bill on the ballot are some of Cambridge's most notorious landlords...
...Skocpol, author of the book States and social Revolutions, began by identifying what she felt were the achievements of the Reagan Revolution...
...petition's author, community activist Terry Crystal, says yesterday that the debate was not simply about the fate of the two projects...
While the threatened author of The Satanic Verses remains in hiding, Khomeini aims his ire at those "misled liberals" who dare to support renewed relations with the West. -- The Soviet Foreign Minister storms the Middle East, trying to win friends and influence adversaries. -- The bumpy road to Soviet elections. -- A Japanese Emperor is laid to rest and so is a turbulent...