Word: ending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today's race may mark the beginning of the end for the CCA Independents split. Fringe groups on both sides have formed new organizations this year with slates of candidates to counter the CCA's established...
Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and other key offices are optimistic that the new decade could end an era in which their party has played a small role. Democrats, on the other hand, are fighting to save their reputations--tarnished by the state's fiscal crisis--and preserve a 20-year rule on Beacon Hill...
South Africa, it turns out, has already enacted an eerily exact analogue to what Israel is now considering. It has legislated an end to foreign funding of social, educational, and health services--as well as political organizations--when the funding is deemed not to be "in the public interest...
...end the picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally are flinty, unrouged, splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag...
...wolf's reintroduction. Now Mott has been replaced by fence-sitter James Ridenour, and political pressure is reaching Yellowstone. Two weeks ago, a traveling Park Service slide show on wolf reintroduction was canceled. An elaborate study asked for by Congress seems certain, when it is released at year's end, to recommend the return of wolves, but political maneuvering has blocked the drafting of the necessary environmental-impact statement. The major national environmental groups support wolf reintroduction, and one, the Defenders of Wildlife, is raising $100,000 to reimburse stockmen in the northern Rockies for livestock the wolves might kill...