Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Political candidates can receive no more than $1000 from any one donor but there is no such limit on contributions to petition drives for ballot questions. Asked if his support for the two-term limit would enable him to receive large contributions from supporters via the fund supporting the ballot drive, Malone said he would not abuse the system...
...internal disputes might divert the rebels from fighting the Najibullah government. Washington urged the mujahedin to forgo further infighting in favor of the "vital work of improving unity and coordination" at a time when the Kabul regime is increasingly assertive on the military and political fronts -- and the guerrillas' drive has faltered. Whatever the fallout, the prospect for future unity is bleak. U.S. analysts fear that once Najibullah is ousted, mujahedin factions will turn on one another in the effort to achieve power...
...than it collected in revenues that it became the world's No. 1 debtor. Says C. Fred Bergsten, the director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "The richest country in the world is competing with the poorest for the pool of available capital. American indebtedness tends to drive up U.S. interest rates, which in turn drives up the cost of loans to other nations, which threatens to wipe out the benefits that Nick Brady has made possible." Meanwhile, the U.S. trade deficit is provoking protectionism, which would make it harder for developing countries to work off their debts...
...reputation grew from a beginning that was so typically modest it could almost be mythic. The only child of an auto-parts salesman-farmer and an elementary school teacher in Linden, Texas ("Drive 20 miles to The Crossroads or, in the other direction, to Uncertain") -- Henley had a bedrock upbringing that permitted his musical excursions but gave him something to kick out against. When success with the Eagles hit fast and hard, he lived his share of the Los Angeles high life and paid a big price. In 1980 he found himself pickled in the press when he was given...
...mere hour's drive separates the prison farm where Nelson Mandela is being held and State President P.W. Botha's white-pillared residence in Cape Town. But the political distance between those two men has always seemed unbridgeable. They have personified the country's racial stalemate: Mandela, who turns 71 this week, insisted that he would make no deals with the white government while he remained a prisoner; Botha, 73, vowed that he would never free the symbolic leader of the nation's black majority unless Mandela forswore the use of violence...