Word: blum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feinstein has been married three times. She has a daughter, Katherine Anne, 24, by her first marriage, which ended in divorce. Her second husband, Neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein, died of cancer shortly before she became mayor. She has since married Financier Richard Blum, whose active role in his wife's career has been criticized in some quarters, leading one columnist to dub the mayor "Feinblum...
...joined the fledgling Comintern, the external arm of the Bolshevik Revolution. Over the next 15 years the P.C.F. developed into a faithful replica of its Soviet parent. The first real opportunity for Communist-Socialist cooperation came in 1936 with the Popular Front government of Socialist Léon Blum. The Communists officially refused to take part in the short-lived Front because the Socialists were the dominant force. But the party tacitly supported such Blum reforms as sponsorship of the 40-hour work week and collective bargaining...
...more than a decade. In his book The Straw and the Grain, he wrote, "If I had the time, I would write the history of the rivers I have known." Journalist Paul Guimard calls him "a great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never ceased to read the great writers, to scribble, to scratch out and, in short, to dream with words...
Others head for employment agencies like Career Personnel Inc., in Southfield, where Owner Stanley Blum is doing a "phenomenal" business preparing resumes for people seeking jobs down South. Perhaps the only business doing better than placement agencies is the moving trade. United Van Lines transported 533 households from Michigan to Texas in 1980, up from 293 the year before. UHaul's one-way southbound traffic in rental trucks has been so brisk that it creates chronic shortages up North...
...constitute a conspiracy against justice and peace." Islamic Conference Secretary-General Habib Chatti of Tunisia raised the possibility of suspending Israel's U.N. membership "if it continued to ignore the decisions of the organization and refused to evacuate the occupied Arab territories." For his part, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum denounced the emergency session as a "grotesque farce" and called the P.L.O. "a linchpin of the terrorist international." When he rose to speak, practically all the Arab delegates left the Assembly chamber...