Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statistics attack American standards--sometimes literally, such as when it tells us of the 40 percent of Iowans who have a hard time singing "The Star-Spangled Banner. The Index, in fact, is unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest. Nebraska, it turns out, has 376 one-room school houses. Half of first-time brides in Kentucky are teenagers. Turning its sights on the nation as a whole, the Index informs that every year 6312 postmen are bitten by dogs and that American's favorite meal is steak and potatoes...
Dole Family Industries. Had a banner week in an otherwise depressed G.O.P. market, as investors were attracted to its financial independence and its record of consistent political earnings in the area of deficit reduction...
From the facade of the normally austere 17-story Ministry of International Trade and Industry in the heart of Tokyo dangled a huge white banner last week. In bold calligraphy it exhorted passersby: LET US SHAKE HANDS WITH NATIONS OF THE WORLD BY IMPORTING MORE GOODS. In his 13th-floor office, Hiroshi Sugiyama, head of MITI's Bureau of Industrial Policies, echoed the spirit of the banner. "To Japan," he said, "the economic priority is not kyoso ((competition)) but kyocho ((conciliation)) with the rest of the world...
...Under a banner that read MOVING AHEAD, party leaders and 1,400 mostly dispirited delegates agreed to a formal reappraisal of Labor's direction, following three straight electoral losses to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. With an eye toward broadening party appeal, Labor promised to reassess even such sacred party tenets as state ownership of industry and unilateral nuclear disarmament, which Deputy Party Leader Roy Hattersley called the "major vote loser" in the past election. Party Leader Neil Kinnock said, "We have got to appeal to the voters we need...
...province definitively buried the separatist banner last June, when it agreed to ratify Canada's 1982 federal constitution. In return, Quebec won passage of amendments recognizing it as a "distinct society," giving the provincial government increased power to preserve French-Canadian culture and allotting it the right to nominate three of the country's nine Supreme Court justices. "Quebec has won one of the greatest victories of her history," exulted Bourassa. His elation was shared by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, himself a bilingual Quebecer, who could personally claim much of the credit for the deal that finally...