Word: breads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intense, hard-edged Heckler, 51, concentrates on a few relatively uncontroversial but still progressive issues, like benefits for Viet Nam veterans. While not a naturally effusive campaigner like Frank, she is scrupulously attentive to bread-and-butter constituent problems. Paunchy, glib and (until recently) chronically disheveled, Frank seems more like a back-room political operative than an up-front candidate. But he and his liberal orthodoxy are especially popular in Brookline and Newton, slightly tweedy and heavily Jewish suburbs that were grafted from his old district onto...
...even as the national political climate has forced ABLE to become more political, Kronick says the organization cannot afford to stray far from its function of solving the problems of particular disabled students in their existence in the Harvard community. ABLE continues to work on the bread-and-butter issues of disabled student life--transportation to classes, getting classes moved to accessible rooms when necessary and the like. In doing this, quiet lobbying is usually a sufficient technique, Kronick says. Although the group has counseled people on filing complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she says...
...average prisoner serves two years or so?is quite severe all by itself. Conjugal visits between inmates and spouses, the innovation so often cited as alarmingly humane, are permitted in only nine states. More typical of prison permissiveness is allowing Playboy pinups in cells and unlimited seconds on Wonder bread in the chow lines...
...retain a degree of independence in domestic matters, even while supporting the general Soviet policy line, a view that resulted in his removal in 1948 as Poland's leader. Jailed from 1951 to 1954 for opposing Stalinist economic collectivization, he returned to power in 1956 following the Poznan "bread and freedom" riots. When Soviet troops massed in and around Poland that October, Gomulka is reported to have met Khrushchev's threat that he had mobilized his troops with the rejoinder, "So have I." The Soviets backed down, and Gomulka became a national hero. Fourteen years later, riots broke...
Then what? "I'd like to have time to think about that," Denes says. One idea she favors is to turn her wheat into bread and distribute it to the poor. She has also received some 30 other suggestions, among them proposals to send the wheat to a needy country like Cambodia or auction it off at the New York Stock Exchange, just down the street...