Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through the handgun industry's pocketbooks what has not been done through their consciences...
...seems to mark him as an angel of coherence. He has obviously read his Garcia Marquez, his Joyce, his Thomas Pynchon. He shares with those authors the desire to assemble everything he has known and seen and make it all fit together, beautifully. In his fourth novel, Rushdie has done just that...
...balance, Baker did more for Bush than any White House staffer has ever done for a Vice President -- but that was not necessarily enough. Shortly before Baker left the White House for the Treasury Department in 1985, he made certain that Bush was present at the crucial 9 a.m. meetings with Reagan. When Donald Regan replaced Baker, he figured that Bush's presence came with the territory. "Nobody suggested that to Baker," says a White House aide. "He just did it for his friend. But believe me, as soon as it started, George's first reaction was to wonder...
Much would still remain to be done, notably resolving the dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union over several small islands in the Kurile chain, what the Japanese call the Northern Territories, which have been controlled by the U.S.S.R. since World War II. The Soviets should also open their far east much more fully to foreign trade and visitors, and operate their own Pacific fleet in a way that does not raise concern over Soviet objectives...
...just do it it will happen. I'm going to work hard to get the best education I can and be the best actress I can be. I think with hard work and optimism, people can achieve whatever they want," she says. "What I've done is really nothing special...