Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bender's offspring are in their ways almost as unhelpful as these strangers. Her daughter Valerie (Heather Tobias, in the movie's only overwrought, misjudged performance) can buy everything but common sense and fills life's emptiness with a riot of ugly possessions. Her son Cyril (Philip Davis) has gone the opposite route. He is a leftover leftist who cannot abandon the habit of Marxist analysis but is unable to believe any longer in its power to effect change...
...former top Reagan official points out that "control of the evening news and the headlines is one of the few tools available" for a President who was elected without any specific mandate, whose political opposition controls both houses of Congress, and who has little federal money with which to buy votes...
When people have a heart attack today, they are likely to be given powerful drugs to dissolve the clots that block the flow of blood to the cardiac muscle. But the drugs are generally used only to buy time until invasive procedures can be performed. These include angiography, the injection of a material into the coronary arteries to identify by X ray the 1 patient in 6 apt to have another attack; and balloon angioplasty, the threading into a blocked artery of a catheter with a tiny balloon on the end that presses plaque against the artery wall and widens...
...fourth year of existence, the Cricket Club is gradually gaining some respect as a sport. The Under-graduate Council gave the club a $197 grant last year to buy bats, stumps (wickets) and batting gloves...
...Howard students didn't buy the rationale for having Atwater on the board. They argued that Atwater's role in Bush's recent campaign, which many believe played on white racist fears, was more important than the money Atwater could attract to Howard from fellow Republicans. The $179 million in federal funds that Howard received this year could not obscure Atwater's masterminding of a dirty campaign which included the racially-tinged Willie Horton issue...