Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, Princeton has already dealt a serious blow to Radcliffe's high hopes for the season...
...questions dealt with prayer in public schools, the Equal Rights Amendment, the death penalty and school desegregation. Among the seven relating to abortion was one asking whether "a 'viable' fetus is a human being." The eight-page letter was sent by three conservative Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee--Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, Orrin Hatch of Utah and John East of North Carolina--to Joseph Rodriguez, a Democrat nominated by Reagan for a New Jersey federal judgeship...
Customarily, the festival plays seem to be chosen to link up at least loosely in theme. This year there were fewer continuities. Of six full-length shows and six one-acts, three were Southern gothics, two more were raucous absurdist fantasies, three others dealt with diseases and hospitals, two depicted the betrayal of noble people by political movements they had served loyally, one was a heartfelt if muddled historical melodrama, and the last was a conventional two-character problem drama about a marriage. Although the scripts varied in diction and temperament, fully half were in essence realistic...
...Reagan Administration's latest attempt to cut National in stitutes of Health, (NIH) funding was dealt a serious plow last week when the General Accounting Office (GAO), charged with overseeing federal expenditures, declared that the education violated...
Reagan's quip touched on a blind spot in outside perceptions of the Soviet Union. The world has dealt for so long with a gerontocracy in Moscow that it knows next to nothing about the men of Gorbachev's generation who will move forward now that he has breached the generational dividing wall. Will better education and greater exposure make them more flexible in their thinking and more accommodating in their dealings with foreigners? Or will they master the ways of the West, but only to pursue better the Soviet Union's long-standing interests...