Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four hours passed before 200 guards using tear gas regained control of the cell block. But the basic situation remains out of control. A U.S. district court ordered the release of some of the prisoners in 1981 pending immigration hearings, which forced the Immigration and Naturalization Service to review cases individually. As a result, 3,500 of the least dangerous were freed. A federal appeals court later ruled that as excludables, the Cubans had no constitutional right to be released. That ruling did not affect those already freed. Washington wants to deport those still held in Atlanta, but Cuban President...
...circular escalator seems simple enough, but the design problems were daunting. The challenge was to lift passengers up and around without tilting them, throwing them against a rail or squeezing them off the tread as it narrows while going around the turn. Complicating the problem were some basic laws of physics that say the two handrails must move at different speeds to match the motion of the twisting stairs. Still, the results look surprisingly conventional: a conglomeration of chains and sprockets and comblike metal plates ingeniously designed, machined and arrayed. The finished escalators will move 6,300 people an hour...
...charge often leveled at Reaganomics is that it has hurt the poor by cutting back social programs, including welfare and food stamps. In Losing Ground (Basic Books; $23.95), Murray unabashedly asserts that slashing social spending is the greatest favor the Government can bestow upon the poor. Federal welfare programs, he concludes, perpetuate poverty rather than cure...
...Judith Martin. "Good manners are not just for the very rich," she says. "Good manners are for everyone. Good manners are free." She was correspondingly appalled when Reagan's first protocol officer, Leonore Annenberg, curtsied to Prince Charles on his 1981 visit to Washington. "If there is any basic principle of American life, it is that we do not recognize that anyone is born at a higher level than anyone else. We do not bend the knee to anyone except God, or in some cases his representative. I found it incredibly offensive to see an American official doing...
Love in this sprightly, misanthropic comedy assumes two basic guises: Priscilla's death grip on her family as a vehicle for social survival and Hughie's foolish infatuation. Mainly it is betrayal that makes Wilson's fictional world go round. Feathers deceives Mrs. Blore by exploiting her pillow talk in a sensational and highly profitable exposé of her husband. Derek Blore, the Right Honorable Member for Wheat-bridge East, got the ball rolling with furtive visits to a prostitute named Bernadette for his ritual whipping. Blore enjoyed fancying himself a naughty schoolboy, a harmless diversion were...