Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also evidence of continued political support for freshman Councilor William H. Walsh, who won his seat in 1985 through attacks on the rent control system, which restricts the rents of 17,000 city housing units to levels far below market rate. Walsh brings a third, more politically conservative element to the council...
...more important element of the package, in the long run, is a proposal that would help the White House twist arms more effectively when dealing with foreign competition. The Administration suggests that the entire trading relationship between the U.S. and any alleged offending country be a factor in considering retaliation for any unfair trading practices. That would allow the Administration formally to take into account any U.S. trade deficit or surplus with each country, as well as the openness of both national marketplaces to similar export products. Theoretically, Washington could then impose tariffs or trade quotas on those that have...
...these are not garments for real life. Couture means made-to-order apparel, requiring several fittings and carrying astronomical price tags. Dresses for daytime run about $2,500 and for evening can cost as much as $33,500. Couture must have an extreme element. Or, as Lacroix puts it, "I am very sure that haute couture should be fun, foolish, almost unwearable. We are like a beautiful Christmas window in a store. We have to make dreams...
...UNIVERSITY has already broken its official ties with the nine all-male final clubs, but the clubs still remain a powerful element of the College's social life. For starters, the activists could help combat the persistence of--and even the trend toward--exclusivity and elitism on campus. Finals clubs would serve as excellent targets for agitation...
...cameras once again dancing attendance, some important things had changed since the days of red-neck heroes like ex- Governor Lester Maddox (who made an appearance with the white supremacists). Said Georgia's current Governor Joe Frank Harris: "We do not and will not tolerate a rabble-rousing, troublemaking element that casts a negative image on a state whose race relations have been marked in large measure by harmony, goodwill and peaceful coexistence." William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, was there watching and vowing that violence would not be permitted. As lawmen in helicopters...