Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even campaigns against drunk driving have encountered trouble. Previous anti-drunk driving campaigns have used advertisements saying, in essence, "Don't Drink and Drive or You'll Get Caught," say participants in the Project. But these campaigns have not been effective, because so few people are ever arrested for drunk driving, say those fighting the problem...
...Belgian relief team of experts carrying 40 tons of equipment including four-wheel-drive vehicles left for Yerevan yesterday, as did an Israeli plane with a 42-person team headed by an army general...
...what was then called the Bell Telephone Co., the telecommunications empire will post a loss for the year. The deficit, which could run as high as $1.7 billion, will be the result of AT&T's decision last week to scrap $5.6 billion worth of outdated equipment. In a drive to modernize, the company is replacing 2 billion miles of telephone connections with higher-capacity fiber-optic lines. AT&T will also install more digital switchboards and other advanced gear, which will eliminate 16,000 jobs. In the fourth quarter alone, the cost to the company will be $6.7 billion...
...housing laws giving tenants the right to buy their homes from the government. The law went into effect in 1987. Prominent Republicans, including Ronald Reagan, flocked to her cause, but Kimi Gray is no conservative ideologue. Her success depends on Great Society programs such as job training to drive home traditional conservative values. "We want to bring families back together, restore our pride and respect," she says. Congressman Jack Kemp, another fan of Gray's who co-sponsored the 1987 legislation, calls tenant management a "synthesis of New Deal programs and conservative thinking." Selling public-housing tenants their homes...
...politician can ignore: votes. In 1976 she organized and registered to vote 12,000 public-housing tenants. As chairman of the citywide public-housing board, Gray is now a local political power of the first order. The success at Kenilworth-Parkside hasn't come without struggle. Poverty can % drive out hope, and Gray admits that at the start of the tenant management struggle, "there were nights I cried myself to sleep because people wouldn't listen, didn't trust me or themselves...