Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care. But don't stay away from the table." Asked by the Soviets whether the build-down proposal was just posturing by the President to win reelection, Democrat Biden stated, "I'm telling you, this is a good deal." He added that build-down enjoyed broad support in Congress and stood a good chance of ratification, whoever occupied the White House...
...slight, dark-haired woman, wearing a brick-red dress, spoke in the broad, flat tones of southeastern Massachusetts, recounting with almost clinical detachment her recollections of being gang-raped on a tavern pool table in New Bedford a year earlier. Her testimony last week came on the second day in the trial of her six accused attackers, all charged with aggravated rape, a crime that carries a possible life sentence. It was the first time the 22-year-old woman, whose identity has been protected at the urging of Superior Court Judge William G. Young, had spoken in public about...
Liberals wanted to eliminate the wild disparity in sentencing that resulted from the broad discretion given to both judges and parole officials, and to make sentences shorter. Conservatives wanted to guarantee that more offenders went to prison and stayed there. Both groups had abandoned rehabilitation as a purpose of incarceration. Says Kay Knapp, director of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission: "When you move to a system whose premise is retribution, just deserts, that old kind of system starts looking less attractive...
...extent, Reagan has become his own economist. At a meeting last fall, Feldstein, Regan and Stockman presented forecasts showing that the deficit would rise to well over $200 billion in the last half of the decade. The President studied the figures and noticed that inflation, as measured by a broad index known as the G.N.P. deflator, which includes prices paid by both businesses and consumers, was expected to hover around 5%. "Why can't we continue to make progress?" the President demanded. "We can't just declare victory...
...Africa. They affect only the small minority that work in American companies," Claude Convisser '84, the undergraduate representative to the ACSR, said this week. Convisser pointed to South African spending on education, which is 14 to 15 times higher for white children than for nonwhite, as indicative of the broad discrimination that he claims the principles do nothing to alleviate. "They provide a cover for continued tacit American support of the South African government," he added...