Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That charge has been the core of a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign that has saturated Maryland's airwaves since Labor Day. In addition, the law's opponents have used some of the $4 million supplied by the N.R.A. to canvass urban neighborhoods, proclaiming that cheap handguns are often the only means poor people have to defend themselves against crime. Outspent more than 12 to 1, defenders of the gun ban have countered by emphasizing its many influential backers, including the state's largest law-enforcement agencies. Governor Schaefer was so outraged by the N.R.A.'s campaign that he is starring...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov) and, when she can make time, movie stardom. Is Lange's part-time job as exemplary actress a hobby, as football is for Bo Jackson? If so, it can be no less punishing or rewarding, because Lange -- any actress, really, in today's Streepstakes -- must find the core of feminism, of flinty self-fulfillment, in a modern movie role. No wimpering-wife parts, thank you. Just Joan of Arc in Levi's, with Silkwood strength and Flo-Jo flash...
...Safeway grocery chain for $4.5 billion. But while KKR is well known as an investment adviser, few people realize that it has become one of the largest industrial holding companies in America. Though KKR readily sells off pieces of the firms it buys, it usually retains some core businesses. Of the 35 companies it has acquired, KKR still has control of 23. As a result, KKR has become a huge conglomerate. The companies it controls produce everything from French colonial furniture to dairy products. If KKR were classified as an industrial company, according to FORTUNE magazine, its estimated $38 billion...
...also oppose the pact. Tussles over such subjects as the Tories' plans for a $8 billion fleet of nuclear-powered submarines or the multitude of corruption scandals that have plagued the Mulroney government are only incidental entertainments amid the imbroglios over free trade. And because the issue touches the core of Canada's sense of itself as a nation and its psychic separation from the U.S., the topic is dangerously flammable, an invitation to a spark...
...core of the debate is a conception of how strong an influence the chair should excercise in council business...