Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Klick naively never suspected was that the tenets of democracy are far from obvious where the nation's capital is concerned. Despite common misperceptions, the District is entitled to only one, non-voting representative in Congress although its 630,000 citizens do pay federal and local taxes and bear all other responsibilities of U.S. citizenship...
...stock market shooting up, Halper last week called his stockbroker at Shearson/American Express and placed a buy order. Said he: "The yields were no longer attractive, so I decided to buy about $35,000 in blue-chip stocks." Millions of small investors left the market in the long bear market of the early 1970s, but many of them are now coming back, slowly...
...owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, spends an hour and a half a day making calls from his new automobile and carry-along phones. Says he: "It's a sensational improvement over the old mobile phone. When I heard about this, I went for it like a bear going for honey...
BRUCE M. METZGER probably has saved more trees than Smokey the Bear, and Metzger doesn't even live in the woods. Or at least not literally. A New Testament scholar, Metzger was chosen by Reader's Digest to edit its new edition of the Bible. At the beginning of this month, Reader's Digest published its condensed version, which excludes more than a quarter of a million words from the Holy Scriptures Among other things. Metzger cut half the Old Testament The best known passages remain intact--creation still takes a full week--but some repetitious portions were nixed. Metzger...
...brandished their heraldic emblems, an increasing number of businesses are brandishing new trademarks. Like the old coats of arms, the new logos are designed to impress friend and foe, inspire vassals with loyalty and pride, and bolster the sense of power. America's best designers are brought to bear on this imagemaking, which generally covers corporate signs, advertising, printed matter and buildings...