Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guarded. The Mexican government called the plan a "first positive step" but cautioned that many details still need to be worked out. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, an outspoken critic of the old debt program, called it a "significant change in direction" and declared that the "Baker plan is dead...
Born to a working-class family in a rough part of Washington, Kenneth Glover thinks he was lucky to get out alive. "One-third of the friends I grew up with are dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care...
...DEAD MAN OUT (HBO, March 12, 10 p.m. EST). A prison psychiatrist (the ubiquitous Danny Glover) tries to help an incorrigible death-row inmate in this heavy-hitting drama...
...timers remember that Estes Kefauver's Senate hideaway was littered with "dead soldiers." Harry Truman had just arrived for a bourbon or two at the "Board of Education," Speaker Sam Rayburn's daily happy hour, when he was summoned to power. Anyone who believes a fellow did not get tiddly now and then in Mr. Sam's quaint quarters lives in fantasy...
...stable democracies were in shock after a social explosion that tore apart downtown Caracas, the capital, and shattered the peace in at least 16 other cities. Government-imposed austerity measures had ignited a three-day free-for-all of rioting, looting and killing that left an estimated 300 people dead, 2,000 injured and another 2,000 in jail...