Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because their vehicles did not and would not meet the 27.5-m.p.g. standard for 1986, 1987 and 1988. Both companies had campaigned vigorously against rigid enforcement of the law, contending that tens of thousands of autoworkers would be laid off as the firms slowed production of larger cars to bring the average m.p.g. for all their vehicles down to the standard...
...will be something to harvest each year when open season comes round. The shrimpers in these parts run out into the gulf at night, turn their bows inshore just at the designated line that divides "outside" and "inside" water, drop their nets and wait for the outgoing tide to bring the shrimp into their pockets. Here the line is just outside the entrance to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It is called, by one and all, the Firing Line...
...Paul's celebrated American tour of 1979, it has been evident that one priority of his pontificate is to buttress official Roman Catholic policies that have faced continual questioning within the U.S. church. Now, a year prior to the Pope's planned return visit to America, his campaign to bring the nation's bishops, priests and sisters into line has provoked a rising tide of dissent. Bishops are privately vexed, and priests are salting sermons with barbs directed at Rome; the board of one Milwaukee parish even recommended that members divert gifts from the annual collection for the Vatican...
...academy agrees; it has been assigning the book since it came out in 1961 as a model of what not to do in the service. "I had the best time of my life during the war," maintains the author. And, alluding to the substantial royalties the book continues to bring in, he adds, "I'm still making a good living from World War II." Was he worried about chumming with future versions of the relentless Colonel Cathcart? "This is a once-in- a-lifetime experience, and I hope I'll be back in another 25 years," said Heller, employing...
...Powers Act, which Richard Nixon tried unsuccessfully to scuttle. In effect, Congress called for an abrupt end to the Reagan Administration policy of "constructive engagement," through which Washington sought to nudge South Africa into gradually liberalizing its system of apartheid. Instead, Congress adopted measures designed to bring about social change by exerting economic pressure on the government of State President P.W. Botha...