Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights bill isn't expected to be debated by the Senate until after the chamber considers the fiscal 1989 budget, which could put the gay rights debate off until the Legislature returns from its summer break after Labor...
Grosz on Saturday told delegates that the party must break free of "ideological prejudices" if economic and political reforms are to succeed...
...statistics are repeated with a numbing frequency, but Wilson contends that because the underclass is overwhelmingly Black, such statistics tend to reinforce racial stereotypes, again focusing attention on individual characterisitcs instead of the deterioration of the ghetto community strucuture. His task is to break through that impediment and to show the structural basis for urban poverty...
...moment the Post remains awash in red ink, but Kalikow predicts it will break even within three years. He also expects circulation to rise from its current level of 555,000 to 700,000, still well behind the Daily News's 1.2 million. Amsterdam says the pressure on her is not to make the Post profitable but to make it better. Still, that may be difficult because of the attrition of recent years, including the loss of two of the paper's most talented headline writers...
Indeed, the question of what may have motivated one superrich couple to break the law is less interesting than the question of what motivates all of them to keep on accumulating, legally or otherwise. A central assumption of supply-side economics -- the dominant economic theology of the past decade, which produced large tax-rate cuts for the wealthy -- is that people are % motivated by rather fine calculations about the reward for further effort. Supply-siders are the chiropractors of capitalism, believing that small manipulations of the incentive structure can produce enormous changes in economic behavior. That may be true...