Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he declined to express confidence in victory, Barrett said "my goals have changed for the final. I'd like to win in Belmont against Bill Monahan and in Watertown against Ms. Nakashian...
...issued an Executive Order banning the importation of Krugerrands from South Africa. That left the Canadian Maple Leaf as the major bullion coin available in the U.S. The public's appetite for such coins is already large, and a little-known fact will even enhance it: the new tax bill signed into law last week allows people to put gold coins in their IRA accounts, which surely will be used as an added selling point by dealers...
Eventually, a bountiful, if not precisely beautiful, 6-5 game came along, leaving one for the title promising everything to everyone. Two runs ahead with an out to victory in the tenth inning, Boston mined 68 years of unthinkable disaster in the shape of infinite singles and First Baseman Bill Buckner's all-time error. For their part, having fallen behind 2-0 and 3-2 in games, the Mets lost some of their hauteur and most of their breath. "I don't care anymore," Third Baseman Ray Knight said, "if we're compared with the 1927 New York Yankees...
...Attorney General, though, seemed to suggest that more vigorous kinds of opposition by officials were also legitimate. Without mentioning him by name, Meese cited with approval the example of newly appointed Federal Judge Daniel Manion, who as an Indiana legislator once introduced a bill just slightly different from a law already declared constitutionally invalid. To Meese's critics, his most troubling contention was that in general only the parties to a suit are bound by a court decision, which implied that no one else was. "What makes the law effective is voluntary compliance," says the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational...
...Mandarin their names will be pronounced "Mi-lao-shu" and "Tang-lao-ya," but the saucer ears and orange bill will show them unmistakably to be the popular Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Beginning this week, at 6:30 every Sunday evening, the 30-minute "Mickey and Donald" animated cartoon show will be broadcast on China Central Television Network, dubbed in Mandarin. In Peking last week, Disney officials announced that the company would provide the Chinese network with 104 episodes over the next two years. Disney will give the network the show in exchange for selling two minutes...