Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because most of the displaced employees chose early retirement and stayed in the area, the long-term impact of the Phillips cuts was not as damaging as it might have been. Still, most business leaders in town say their customers are more cautious spenders now. Observes David Oakley, president of Oakley Pontiac-Buick: "People are starting to hang on to cars a little longer. My new-car sales are off, but service...
...city hasn't complained over past years about the shuttle bus, but this year, someone is raising some questions," Rose said. He said he was unsure why Cambridge officials chose this moment to enforce traffic regulations...
...Thomas, consisted mostly of a laundry list of legislative proposals. The conservatives, led by Speechwriter Anthony Dolan, contributed an unsolicited draft that took a sharply aggressive line: it would have committed the President to push for a constitutional convention to draft a balanced-budget amendment. Reagan rejected both and chose a third draft written by Ken Khachigian, a former White House speechwriter who was called back from California for this effort. Though Khachigian's lyrical prose is well suited to Reagan's natural speech rhythms, the final talk was too familiar and vague to change any minds, in Congress...
...most part, the folks were just normal. Given a choice between poverty, loneliness and fear in a democracy, and relative prosperity, family and safety in a totalitarian regime, the returning Soviets chose the latter. Like most human beings, they eschewed ideology and high ideals for a chance to enjoy life just a bit more than before...
...biochemist, and his wife Elizabeth, 41, a pediatrician, contracted with Whitehead early in 1985 for her to conceive a child through artificial insemination and carry it on their behalf. The three were brought together through the Infertility Center of New York, a for-profit Manhattan agency. The Sterns chose Whitehead, now 29, after reviewing and rejecting the applications of 300 women. Some drank. Some smoked cigarettes or marijuana. Some just did not look the part. The Sterns wanted a candidate "who might have looked like us," said Elizabeth Stern...