Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill hailed St. Patrick's Day at a luncheon in the Speaker's lair on Capitol Hill. But the tableau of bipartisan spirits, which reflected the compromises that have been attained so far on Social Security and a $5 billion jobs program, may be the last symbolic display of unity for a while. Beneath the blarney was brewing what could turn out to be a bloody partisan battle. After the lunch was over, the House Budget Committee passed a plan designed by the Democratic leadership that sets up a showdown over the budget for fiscal 1984, which begins...
...send more military aid and advisers. Some White House staffers began to second-guess the political judgment of Assistant Secretary Enders, who had never before been considered a soft-liner on U.S. policy in El Salvador. Enders was concerned that congressional support for Administration policy might erode without some display of flexibility on the negotiation issue. The Administration's hardening attitude created the feeling that it would in no circumstances support negotiations...
...astonished that The Crimson a paper edited by and for the young, should display in its coverage of the Bottle Bill such an ignorant and insensitive attitude toward the bill's impact upon the environment. We read in your columns about the whines of the retailers, objecting to the inconvenience of the deposit and return law, not one word about what similar bills have accomplished in the states that have them in cleaning up the environment and conserving natural resources...
...couple of generic styles and several specific names. Like spray-painted murals down the side of a New York City subway, or a ghetto blaster carried on a shoulder broadcasting 130 beats a minute all over a Bronx street, this subculture, nicknamed hip hop, is about assertiveness, display, pride, status and competition, particularly among males. Clothes are not only a part of this offhand cultural statement; they are a kind of uniform for cultural challenge...
...kind that every TV news director dreads: a despondent person demanding the attention of a camera, and an audience, for one last desperate act. On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage. The voice on the telephone said, "If you want to see somebody set himself on fire, be at the square in Jacksonville in ten minutes...