Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contras, U.N. handling of the Gulf crisis, an end to SDI research and an immediate ban on nuclear testing. These ideas are not all necessarily bad, but they are when the advocate, like Simon, has put forth no course of action to be followed if the Sandinistas break the Arias plan, or if the Soviets violate the new arms control agreement...
...declared an all-out war on crack, promising to beef up the city's narcotics squads and shut down at least twelve crack houses a day. Said Young: "We're going to hit them and hit them hard. If we can establish a probable cause, we're prepared to break down doors." With an estimated 10,000 crack houses now operating in the city, the mayor and his men have their work cut out for them...
...Garde Composer Milton Babbitt. Sondheim, straight out of Williams, talked Babbitt into taking him on as a private pupil in structure and theory. He paid with money from a fellowship and stretched the funds by living in bohemian disorder in his father's dining room. Next he tried to break into show business. A few painful years of struggle -- scraping up auditions that led to more auditions, writing and rewriting a show that never got staged because the producer died, going out to Hollywood to write scripts for the TV sitcom Topper -- ended in triumph when his lyrics for West...
...Hampshire, and you are certain to encounter half a dozen reporters working on psycho-profiles. Tape recorders at the ready, they push and prod the candidate for his formative experiences: Was your father cruel, did your mother feed you gruel, were you popular in school, did you break the Golden Rule...
...turned upside down. Eeriest of all, they can sense, by sending and receiving radio waves, when other talking Cabbage Patch Kids are near. When one doll passes within 25 ft. of another, it calls, "Hi, there! Hey, look who's here! It's my cousin!" The dolls may then break into a round of Row, Row, Row Your Boat...