Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priority, to interfere with banking interests and Third World debt schemes. Time to interfere with State Department bureaucrats' quest to make the world safe for cocktail parties." State Department officials call Von Raab a "loose cannon" who lacks "a certain rationality." He responds . in kind, calling his Foggy Bottom critics "wimps . . . conscientious objectors in the war on drugs...
...than before. The carmakers could do that by averaging the emissions of every car they ^ produce in a given model year, offsetting the most polluting vehicles with less polluting models. Auto-company experts do not dispute the environmentalists' interpretation of the "fleet-averaging" provision, but they insist that the bottom line will still be cleaner air. "Some cars may be below and some may be above, but they all have to meet the lower standard on average," says an industry lobbyist...
...Secchia, 52, a former Republican national committeeman from Michigan, was narrowly confirmed last month as Ambassador to Italy despite press reports alleging frequent profanity and crude behavior toward women. Before arriving in Rome, he endeared himself to his future hosts by joking that the new Italian navy boasts glass-bottom boats "so they can see the old Italian navy...
Gorbachev had appealed last week for a "renewal" of Communist Party ranks from top to bottom, and his suggestion that local governing bodies also be transformed could mean sweeping leadership changes...
From this, the Prime Minister's bottom line, a dangerous notion transcends Israel's current internal political crisis. It is the idea that the intifadeh must be defeated rather than merely calmed...