Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opinion.) By 46% to 15%, Democrats were seen as more able to provide jobs for the unemployed. Voters thought the Republicans had a slight advantage in dealing with the Soviets and with Government waste. Those polled said that they would be far likelier to base their presidential vote on broad concerns rather than on narrower social issues, such as gun control, school prayer and abortion...
...asked for $8 billion from the U.S. next year, but Congress has proved reticent and has even hinted at broad cutbacks of aid to the World Bank. But with the dollar at such a high value in relation to other currencies, foreign aid will never again be as cheap for Congress, and probably never carry as much good will. Since the only plausible path to repayment of Third World debts lies in real economic growth, it is in the industrial world's interest to step up, rather than contract, the activities...
...Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. His nerve going, his job gone, his boys slashing their way out of his dream, the truth clawing down one after another of his defenses, Willy Loman has no prop left except a loyal and loving wife. It is not enough. He can only...
...solemn but peaceful mood, the students went to pay their respects to Poland. Ten abreast down the broad Danube quays they marched to Petofi Square. A student and workers delegation went to the radio station, requested that its demands be made public. Security police arrested the delegation. The crowd stormed the building, but the police opened fire, killing several attackers...
Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...