Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away, she will mark as a turning point in her fortunes. As a British businessman puts it: "In 1982 Prime Minister Thatcher restored our national pride." Her rating in the polls is up to 44%, and many Britons confidently predict that she would win an election handily if she chose to call...
...parents chose Helen. As the boys hovered near death, she prayed as never before. "This was a chance for people to experience the living Gospel," she recalls. But, she adds, "my family's lives were at stake." The boys survived and Helen was so besieged by the sick that she soon became the village's practical nurse, delivering hundreds of babies, suturing hundreds of wounds. The Ixils began to accept the Elliotts as prophets of a loving...
...that stick), Bryant was influenced by the recruits he had been losing in growing numbers, as more and more mothers sought to know exactly how long he would be around to smile on their sons. A year ago, perhaps the three leading prospects in the state of Alabama all chose Auburn, and one of them scored the touchdown that brought the Tigers their first victory over the Tide in ten years...
...rejection of a President's wishes on a major national security issue drew an uncharacteristically bitter reaction from Reagan. "I had hoped that most of the members in the House had awakened to the threat facing the United States," he said. "That hope was apparently unfounded. A majority chose to go sleepwalking into the future...
Farm organizations, though waiting for more details, seem willing to consider the plan. Among some two dozen ideas for reducing stockpiles that Block reportedly discussed with farm lobbyists, the lobbyists chose PIK as the most promising. Block can probably start the plan without congressional approval, but he is asking the legislators for authority to freeze "target" (support) prices at their 1983 levels for the next two years. He is unlikely to get that authority from the current lameduck session and is uncertain whether he should start PIK without...