Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five months of pure joy," Polsky said. "I'm as happy as a memora catching a ride on a shark. I'm as content about the year as the mantjac is coming home from a successful kill. It was a year full of joy and pain...
...long as we get our daily dose of Rather, Letterman and Win, Lose or Draw, the first Sesame Street generation will be happy, content to remain the same. Let us accept our passivity...
...housewife, Terry Rakolta, became an instant celebrity for her successful letter-writing campaign against the bawdy Fox network sitcom Married . . . With Children. Responding to her complaints, several major advertisers, including Kimberly- Clark and Procter & Gamble, said they would no longer run ads on the show because of its "offensive" content. The sitcom -- Fox's highest-rated show -- is in no mortal danger: ad time is sold out for the season, Fox officials say, and only one company, Tambrands, actually canceled a scheduled commercial because of Rakolta's complaints...
Mughniyah seems content to bide his time until the U.S. breaks. But he has not tired of finding ways to press Hizballah's confrontation with the West. Britain's Guardian newspaper reported last month that he was busy organizing mass demonstrations in Lebanon. The cause: demanding Salman Rushdie's death for writing The Satanic Verses...
...more ingenious was the way House Speaker Jim Wright skirted the already generous congressional ceiling on outside income. Not content with mere honorariums, Wright arranged an unusual sweetheart deal: a supporter published one of Wright's books, sold most of the copies in bulk to groups like the Teamsters, and then handed over 55% of the proceeds (nearly $60,000) to the Speaker as royalties. This daisy chain was probably legal, but clearly unsavory. It is among a welter of charges against Wright contained in a voluminous report now being studied by the House Ethics Committee. Few expect more than...