Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holworthy Hall is experiencing a banner year...
...price for fiscal prudence. Government budget cuts have led to increased unemployment and poverty, which in turn has sparked anger and unrest. Last August more than 100,000 labor union members paraded through downtown Buenos Aires to protest the government's compliance with IMF austerity measures. Read one giant banner: PEACE, BREAD, WORK AND TO HELL WITH...
That works in both political directions. Neil Young stumped heavily at the concert for the controversial Harkin bill, which is also known as the "Farm Policy Reform Act of 1985," while the Charlie Daniels Band held down the conservative wing with banner-waving ditties like In America, which offered the observation that Lady Liberty "may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell." Lou Reed pointed up the irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live...
...baseball heroes who told of their own addiction to drugs and, for the first time, ticked off the names of playing buddies with whom they shared the affliction. The / timing could not have been worse. Despite a one-day strike last month, major league baseball was headed for a banner year, drawing more fans than ever before. Three of the four divisions were locked in supertight races with 30 or so games remaining. Baseball's two biggest markets each had a pair of contenders: New Yorkers dreamed of a Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees, while Los Angelenos fantasized...
Under the banner of Mesa Petroleum, T. Boone Pickens has launched one corporate raid after another and in the process reshaped the American oil industry. He used Mesa as a vehicle to buy huge chunks of such companies as Cities Service, Gulf and Phillips, then sold the stock to other bidders at premium prices. Last week Pickens moved to end the Mesa saga. In December, shareholders will be asked to convert the company from a public corporation into a limited partnership. After that move, Mesa is not expected to make any further takeover attempts...