Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's citizens have grown increasingly restive about the austerity measures that were imposed by the government of President Miguel de la Madrid to meet debt payments. About 35,000 people joined a protest march last week in Mexico City. Said one banner: MORATORIUM ON THE DEBT. THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH. By comparison, Venezuela's President Jamie Lusinchi should experience less trauma because his country's debt, at $35 billion, is smaller...
...small university, and one of our own was going into space. One of our guys was making good." When Jarvis climbed into the shuttle last week, he was carrying a flag from the school he considered his real alma mater, SUNY at Buffalo. He called the banner "a small token for the way they unlocked my future...
...placed the gaffe firmly at the steps of the State Department. In the end State diplomatically shouldered the blame. "The White House acted on an initial report conveyed by State," said one good soldier. But unhappy officials at Foggy Bottom may have taken some satisfaction from the front-page banner headline splayed across the Friday afternoon edition of the Miami News: DUVALIER HAS FLED HAITI, WHITE HOUSE REPORTS...
Later, at the indoctrination center, Offred sees her mother again, this time in a newsreel approvingly shown by the authorities: "She's in a group of other women, dressed in the same fashion; she's holding a stick, no, it's part of a banner, the handle. The camera pans up and we see the writing, in paint, on what must have been a bed sheet: TAKE BACK THE NIGHT." Now there are no sleazy districts in Gilead. A woman can walk in public without being whistled at or worse. Offred wonders what her mother, if still alive, thinks about...
...legal system, Rudolph Giuliani, 41, has a mission: "To make the justice system a reality for the criminal." Nearly three years into his four-year appointment by President Reagan, he has done just that by snaring high-living mobsters, low-life drug dealers, quiet white-collar criminals and loud banner headlines. Like Thomas Dewey and Henry Stimson, earlier New York prosecutors who parlayed their convictions into prominent national careers, Giuliani has become a high-profile, white-hatted gangbuster in an age when the public yearns for someone to prove that crime doesn...