Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preparing for more bone-tiring battles over the budget...
...combative speech to Republican women in Denver on Friday, Reagan acknowledged the difficulty of his task. Said he: "All of us-the Administration, the Congress and the American people-are going to be bone-tired from the budget battles over the next few years...
...amounts to no way at all. "Improving black schools has the unpleasant aroma of separate-but-equal," says William Taylor, director of the Washington-based Center for National Policy Review. "That kind of rhetoric is gross hypocrisy from an Administration that is cutting school expenditures to the bone." Adds Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio: "It's pitiful. Suddenly in one fell swoop this Administration turns the clock back on civil rights...
...last week that an expedition he led during the summer had found the fossil remains of what is now thought to be the oldest mammal specimen in North America, Farish A. Jenkins Jr., who is also curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said the jaw-bone fossil belongs to a mouse-sized creature that lived about 180 million years ago. "This is the most exciting find of my career because it stimulates our research of the earliest stages of mammalian history," Jenkins said in announcing the discovery of the one-cm.-long bone found in northeastern...
...have required industries to post a list of chemicals their workers are exposed to on the job, made drug firms spell out the possible risks of each medicine they sell, and now plans to cancel a regulation that would compel hotdog makers to note if their products contain ground bone. The Car Book, a popular 68-page pamphlet that lists the safety features and maintenance costs of 81 U.S. and foreign automobiles, is not being reprinted even though it is one of the most successful publications ever offered by the Government (1.5 million copies distributed in one year). The book...