Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June alone) and to restore confidence in its virtually insolvent government. Among them: a 90-day wage- and-price freeze, a 116% devaluation of the austral to 650 vs. the U.S. dollar and an aggressive privatization of most state-run companies. Because the end of many government subsidies will bring unavoidable price increases for some goods and services, all workers will be given a bonus of 8,000 australes ($12.30 at the new rate...
...Uncle George on a historic dash through Eastern Europe, trying to reach out and touch everyone, striving to bring down to personal terms his doctrine of homegrown political and economic freedoms and what they could mean for the burdened people of the Soviet bloc. He was consumed with the idea that the economic summit, held in Paris during the weekend, ought to give much of its attention to the stirrings in the long-troubled nations of the old empire...
...Willie and Susan] always made love on Christmas Eve. Willie would have been frightened if they had not, for it would have seemed to him unlucky. In the morning he got up early and went to bring Dinah her presents. They made love that morning. By the time they had breakfast, Susan would be up...she would go to find Dinah and they would share early or midafternoon of Christmas Day...They would all feel cherished, they would feel each relationship individually burnished and their ties strengthened...
...Hoose saves his harshest criticism for the National Football League, that "kingdom of megafauna where clothesline tackles and forearm shivers bring back ancient truths." There have been only eight Black quarterbacks in NFL history to throw more than 25 passes, and the league has never had a Black head coach...
...choice groups concede that they do not have much chance of blocking such legislation in states where pro-lifers have been organizing for years. Instead, groups such as the National Organization for Women will mount ballot initiatives and may bring lawsuits in states whose constitutions contain privacy provisions that might extend to abortion. They will also try to demonstrate their political power at the polls. "America's political landscape will never be the same," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. "To politicians who oppose choice, we say, 'Read our lips. Take our rights. Lose...