Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these circles that the decisions will be made about who gets what and how much from the capital drive. Spence, however, will have broad powers to set the money priorities--just as he will bear much of the responsibility for FAS fundraising once it kicks into high gear...
...nearly leaped out of his insignia sweatsuit at this sight. The folks at U.S. News & World Report were headed in the right direction, he said, but they had stopped way short of completion. "How in the name of Widener," he swore, "could anyone judge a school on just five broad criteria...
...something about the issue of abortion. Attorney General Neil Hartigan, a democratic candidate for governor who has defended the clinic regulations, has been pressed by pro-choice groups to drop the case. It takes no political whiz to realize that if the Court used the Illinois case to legalize broad restrictions on access to abortion, Hartigan's hopes within the Democratic party are as good as over...
...financing, with none of the subsidy coming from general tax revenues. Small wonder that the most prosperous Medicare recipients, largely protected by private health insurance, rebelled against being singled out to aid the less fortunate. That responsibility should rest with all taxpayers. Despite the phony fixation on fiscal gimmicks, broad-based taxation remains the fairest way to fund federal programs. It is a principle that Congress and the White House ignore at their peril...
...however, the myth of the New World plutocrat persisted. This was still the impression that Gatzoyiannis gave when he met the boat that carried his motherless children from Piraeus to New York City in 1949. Gage, then nine, recalls his father's "gleaming black oxfords, gray overcoat, and broad fedora -- an island of style in a sea of weeping and embracing refugees." The reunited family boarded a new blue DeSoto for the ride to Worcester. The car turned out to be rented, the old mill town no Athens, and Christos Gatzoyiannis no big shot...