Word: dens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech last week to a joint meeting in Manila of domestic and foreign Chambers of Commerce, she put forth a reform plan for an initial 100 days in office. She promised that she would attack Marcos-inspired corruption "with the zeal of a crusading housewife let loose in a den of world-class thieves." She said she would break up the last elements of the sugar and coconut monopolies run by Marcos cronies, remove taxes on seeds and fertilizers, and cut taxes on fuel and electricity. Her audience of at least 2,000 applauded enthusiastically...
...keynote speaker delicately delivered in his tribute to a man who, above all else, was not given to understatement. The Vice President, eager to defuse the lingering ultraconservative hostility that could block his presidential ambitions for 1988, bravely forayed into the far- right corner of the lion's den last week to honor the memory of William Loeb, the late publisher of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader. No puller of punches, Loeb regularly aimed sprays of front-page vitriol at those he regarded as ideologically impure, Bush prominent among them...
...Sasolburg, an oil and coal center south of Johannesburg, a pamphlet was distributed with a message that was provocative even by South African standards. Referring to a white man who had married a "colored" woman after miscegenation laws were repealed last June, it asked: Do you want the Van den Bergs living on your street? Do you want their children going to your school...
...government imposed restrictions on press coverage of strikes, riots and other social unrest. Even before the voting, the ever cautious Botha government was trying to deflect right-wing attacks. At a public meeting in Sasolburg, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha responded to the furor over the Van den Bergs, who now live in a mixed-race trailer camp, by saying that housing rules would have to be reviewed. That sort of equivocation did not impress voters on either side of the race question. Said Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman of the antiapartheid Progressive Federal Party: "Ambiguous reform will lose support...
...luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect of purchasing one of her off-beat roommate's bagel and cream cheese sculptures, Marcie invites our hero to... what else?... her loft for a post--midnight nightcap. And so another unsuspecting Daniel enters the lion's den...