Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts' next governor. The bitter ideological and personal rivalry goes back to 1978, when King unseated Dukakis--who was governor at the time--in the Democratic primary. At a Statehouse press conference Thursday. King announced. "I will support the Democratic ticket. Michael Dukakis is on that ticket." The lame duck governor went on to say he would not campaign in the next five weeks...
...position on the touchy question of what rights handicapped students should have. The department's proposed regulations would put "reasonable limits," to be determined by states or school boards, on services schools must provide to handicapped students, limits that many critics believe could allow school districts to duck their responsibilities. At the hearing, Bell told the overflow crowd that the proposed regulations may need revisions. Said...
...crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player and I caught sight of each other and began to shoot. The pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could see the paint pellets spin past me, although they were too fast to duck away from. My fourth or fifth shot hit the red player, who said "Aaaargh!"the way comic-book villains used to do when they got bopped by Captain Marvel, whom I now felt myself to resemble...
...Madrid must make tough decisions to help the floundering economy. He will have to continue the 17-point austerity program belatedly begun by the lame-duck Lopez Portillo administration. Among the targets: a reduction of the government's budget deficit from 15% of the G.D.P. to 3% by the end of 1985, import restrictions, government hiring freezes and probably a hike in Mexico's heavily subsidized energy prices. The current price of gasoline...
...they care about are clothes, suntans, jogging and ice cream," he says. "They don't take drugs anymore, and their music could have been written by Donald Duck...