Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Branch on regulatory or labor issues, Bork sided with business every time. Amid the furor over his nomination, Bork has been quietly lobbying for himself on Capitol Hill. He has met privately with nearly all the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, assuring the lawmakers that he would bring no prejudices to the court. Five Democratic committee members, however, are expected to vote against Bork, while five Republicans have declared their support. The three most likely swing votes: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Whatever the Judiciary Committee decides...
...park was desperately needed. For decades, Kennecott Copper Corp., which provided thousands of jobs at an open-pit mine near Ruth, had argued that the mountains might be mineral rich. By 1980 the mine was closed, undercut by cheap foreign copper. Unemployment skyrocketed. The new park, they hoped, would bring paying guests for hotels, restaurants and other services. Conservation suddenly began to look like good business...
...travail. "It means hard work, penance and finally a journey," he explained, noting, "There was an idea, particularly in the Middle Ages, that by going on pilgrimage, as Muslim pilgrims do, you were reinstating the original condition of man. The act of walking through a wilderness was thought to bring you back...
Although the removal of Pershings and cruise missiles would not seriously handicap NATO's nuclear strike ability, the implications of an INF treaty go beyond tactical effects. The first successful disarmament treaty--as opposed to an arms control treaty such as SALT--could easily bring about, in its wake, the negotiated elimination of other nuclear weapons in Europe such as those carried by bombers or fired by artillery. An INF treaty holds out the possibility of the "denuclearization" of Europe, which would remove the West's check on Soviet conventional superiority on the continent...
...matter how many facts the young and strong will bring with them, no student can tell what he will have to do nor can he cover every base when studying...