Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Bush's asserting his political independence, the Vice President cannot hope to defeat Michael Dukakis without standing on the shoulders of the President. Bush appears, on present form at least, overmatched as a candidate, offering the voters little more than a resume without a rationale. Yet as the crown prince, the authorized inheritor of the Reaganite mantle, Bush may still be able to rally the faithful behind the implicit message of "Four More Years...
...relations with the Arab world were further complicated last week when, much to the surprise and embarrassment of the White House, the Senate voted to deny Kuwait sophisticated Maverick air-to-surface missiles just days before the Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Crown Prince Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, arrived in Washington. Kuwait would like to buy $l.9 billion worth of arms, including 40 F-18 jet fighters, of which the Mavericks are considered an essential feature...
...wooing of the Saudis absorbed the British government at every level. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul al-Saud attended the races at Ascot last month as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. Having visited Saudi Arabia to press for the sale in 1986, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was not about to fall in line with the U.S. in this case, as she has on other issues. She is determined that nothing go amiss with a deal that promises to create 50,000 British jobs...
...national parks have been likened to America's crown jewels, repositories of majesty and beauty passed from one generation to the next. But as development and tourism have grown, these heirlooms are becoming shopworn. "There never has been so much pressure on parks as today," says Paul Pritchard, a former Interior Department official who is now president of the National Parks and Conservation Association. The General Accounting Office reported this spring that the parks need an immediate $1.9 billion to repair roads, trails and buildings. "Deterioration of some assets is so advanced that they may be lost permanently," GAO stated...
Sasner's success soon spread to her teammates. In her junior year, the squad's two-time captain led the Crimson to a 10-0 Ivy record and the team's first Ivy League crown. Last year with Sasner's help, the team posted a 7-2-1 Ivy record and once again claimed the Ivy League crown...