Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payment for programs over several years)), but I'm not going to give up on them. I have to set priorities, though. I'd like to start moving forward on the main ones, even if it's not going to be the total funding that I'd like to bring about...
...dramatist August Wilson, whose first three Broadway efforts, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, each won the New York Drama Critics Circle prize as best play of the year. The fact that producers are not shoving each other in haste to bring Piano Lesson to Broadway, especially in a season when the Tony Awards are likely to be given to mediocrities by default, underscores the all but defunct place of serious drama in our commercial theater...
...same time. Residents of Minnesota's Koochiching County, whose biggest town is International Falls (pop. 10,000), are trying to boost their sagging population by giving away up to 40 acres to each brave soul who takes up residence there. To qualify, applicants must be financially self-sufficient and bring a business or a useful skill with them. The county has received 27 applications, four of which have been accepted...
From there, Bush "shared" the disabled's "dreams of full participation" in society, and then promised a group of schoolteachers that "education will be on my desk and on my mind from the start, every day." At yet another gathering, he said the country should "work together to bring light to shine on all of God's children," a notion revisited movingly in the Inaugural when he charged the nation to help "the homeless," the "children who have nothing and those who cannot free themselves of enslavement to whatever addiction -- drugs, welfare, demoralization -- that rules the slums...
...measure's supporters, who have so far received generous contributions from the city real estate industry, may bring out a strong anti-rent control vote that could sweep in a fifth Independent. But on the other hand, the threat to rent control may bring out more votes from those who benefit from the system...