Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following day, daylight streamed through the glass panes of the Graduate School of Design's (GSD) Gund Hall to reveal Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Carter's former assistant for national security affairs: G. William Miller, Carter's Secretary of the Treasury: Arthur Levitt Jr., chief executive officer of the American Stock Exchange; and Buchwald and Mondale again...
...animals-dogs, cats, skunks and a bat. Skunks are particularly dangerous carriers of the rabies virus; while dogs usually die within three weeks after infection, skunks survive for up to four months. Ordinarily shy, skunks have attacked dogs and cows, wandered into houses and even chased children in broad daylight...
...buying guard dogs and supplies of Mace. Locksmiths and burglar-alarm businesses are flourishing, as are classes in karate and target shooting. Banks have long waiting lists for vacated safety-deposit boxes. Many city sidewalks are a muggers' mecca at night; the elderly dread walking anywhere, even in broadest daylight. The fear of street crime is changing the way America lives...
...fact, Kemp may have misunderstood what the President was proposing. (Said one White House aide: "There are worse things than having daylight between this Administration and Jack Kemp." Kemp is widely regarded as a tax-slashing zealot.) For a married couple, the 50% rate now applies only to that portion of taxable income above $60,000 a year. Under the President's plan, the 50% rate by 1984 would apply only to taxable income exceeding $215,000-a level of wealth claimed on only three-hundredths of 1% of all tax returns, according to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan...
...were sent to case the joint, an office on the fifth floor of a building next to Grand Central Station in New York City. Then prosecutors raided the premises -impounding two truckloads of evidence. Though it had the split-second timing of a narcotics bust, last week's daylight raid by New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture...