Word: either
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cries of "un-American" are as genuine and as frequent on either side. Everyone is protecting the country. Zappa accuses Gore of undermining the moral fiber of America with the "sexual neuroses of these vigilant ladies." He argues that she threatens our freedoms with "connubial insider trading" because her husband is a Senator. Apparently her marital status should deprive her of speaking privileges in public -- an argument Westbrook Pegler used to make against Eleanor Roosevelt. Penthouse says Rakolta is taking us down the path toward fascism. It attacks her for living in a rich suburb -- the old "radical chic" argument...
...sports analysis made by racists. These mobilizations of social opprobrium are not examples of repression but of freedom of expression by committed people who censured without censoring, who expressed the kinds of belief the First Amendment guarantees. I do not, as a result, get whatever I approve of subsidized, either by Pepsi or the government. But neither does the law come in to silence Tipper Gore or Frank Zappa or even that filthy rag, the Dartmouth Review...
...junk-bond issuers by the economic consulting firm Data Resources, 1 out of every 8 will default if the economy falls into a soft landing. A major recession could produce a 1-in-5 default rate over five years. This year some $3 billion worth of junk bonds either have defaulted or were forced into a restructuring. The failure rate is well ahead of last year, when about $4 billion in junk bonds collapsed during the entire twelve months...
After he was returned to custody, even more damaging evidence began to emerge. Investigators had long believed that the killer was either a policeman or a person posing as a police officer who lured his victims to their deaths with offers of assistance or by intimidating them. A search of Stevens' parents' property produced a police car, 100 police badges, 29 firearms and 26 license plates. This month the police obtained a search warrant in response to a 40-page affidavit prepared by the Green River Task Force, the group of King County officers assigned to the case. Recovered from...
...folks are definitely at home. Says Mayor Lester Gover, 84: "You won't find Bird in no guidebooks -- but then you won't find Kansas either, least in some guidebooks I've seen. That don't stop it being a neat little place to live and die in though." If you ask for a Teflon cake pan at East West Hardware, you are still told that is the sort of thing you are more likely to find in Baxter, 30 miles away, according to Marilyn Ryman, now living in Los Angeles. Her description of her homecomings: "Like seeing...