Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress's attitude, says Senator John Glenn, "is the rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us." Instead, Congress has exempted itself from a broad array of laws covering civil rights, minimum wages, and safety requirements and discrimination. "Congress would exempt itself from the laws of gravity if it could," says Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde...
...bill, the President would have less latitude to disregard the commission's recommendations that these industries be given import relief. The bill would also require that the White House launch investigations of countries that maintain "numerous and pervasive" trade barriers and would authorize the President to retaliate against a broad range of exports from those nations...
...younger Schlesinger, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and an adviser to President John F. Kennedy '42, said that his father's book, which "ranged widely over the broad expanse of American history," helped to open up new fieldsof scholarship in immigrant history and women'shistory. The book also discussed the problem ofvoter turnout, he said, adding, "We are doing asbad in recent elections...
Taking refuge behind an analogy and a double interrogative may seem unnecessarily furtive at a time when the Sandinistas and the contras are talking earnestly of ending the bloodshed. But it is a pointed reminder that peace and the broad political consensus needed to sustain it are still no more than dreams for most Nicaraguans...
...battle for perestroika -- Gorbachev's term for the radical economic restructuring he is trying to carry out. Was Gorbachev's authority being seriously challenged? Or did the criticism exchanged in coded speeches and press articles amount to no more than a difference in emphasis between officials pursuing the same broad policy objectives? There were indications last week that the Soviet leadership had been engaged in the most significant internal political struggle since Gorbachev came to power three years...