Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's why they call it a struggle instead of a picnic...
...anything really changed in the 20 years since your call for an Olympic boycott...
...arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really care what we call ourselves. I just want us to get economic and social equality...
...same time that his accusers say he was depleting the tribal treasury, MacDonald was considerably improving his own financial state, supplementing his $55,000-a-year salary with lavish "gifts" from outside contractors. His critics did not call him "MacDollar" for nothing. Testifying under immunity before the Senate committee, MacDonald's son Peter Jr. said that when his father needed cash, he would call a benefactor and ask for "golf balls," MacDonald Sr.'s code word for $1,000 cash payments. MacDonald Jr. would then collect the bribe...
...sense, got exactly what they wanted -- only to find that perhaps they should not have wanted it after all. In banning the book, various wise bodies have ignored the truth that every parent knows: a prohibition is often an invitation in disguise. And in making his Valentine's Day call for massacre, Khomeini seems to have gone beyond overkill to hubris: unlike, say, the Christians who opposed The Last Temptation of Christ, he appears unwilling to let God take care of ultimate justice himself...