Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biden had been plagiarizing Kinnock's words. Distribution of the tape could have been defended as a proper revelation that raised legitimate questions about Biden's ability to be President. True, it would have been severely embarrassing for any campaign to admit taking shots at Biden on the eve of the hearings he conducted on Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. , Furious Democrats regarded the video as undermining the effort to defeat Bork, an important party cause. Even so, the embarrassment would have been minor compared with what actually occurred...
...Secretary, Vice President Laurel accused Aquino of reneging on a pre-election agreement to allow him to run the government. Aquino had "admitted that she would be incapable of running it since she had no experience," Laurel complained. There seemed to be some basis to his claim. On the eve of the February 1986 election, a high-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman -- and a prominent Aquino backer -- told a visitor that since Aquino claimed to be only a "housewife," he expected her to step down a few months after the election and turn the presidency over to Laurel...
...Miami became the homicide capital of the nation; she counts 1,191 killings for the period. Many were casualties of the drug wars. She describes gunplay as common, with morning pedestrians sidestepping the night's victims, senior citizens ducking for cover in hotel lobbies, and a New Year's Eve when hundreds of Miamians celebrated by shooting out car windows, power transformers and streetlights. A twin-engine Cessna carrying five passengers landed at Miami airport that night with bullet holes in its tail section. Buchanan provides the earth tones pinked over by the producers of Miami Vice...
...eve of the execution, Jane Francioni's family gathered at their trim lakeside home in Slidell, 30 miles northeast of the city, to console themselves and pray. "We are totally spent," sighed Jane's anguished mother Mary Catherine. "It was we who got the life sentence." Her son Norman expressed the grief of all who were connected to the two deaths: "We're victims, they're victims, everyone's a victim in this...
...stock prices have risen to a level that cannot be justified by companies' prospective profits. By one estimate, the stocks in the Dow Jones average are now selling at 20 times expected earnings this year. That is high, but still below the multiple of 22 in 1962, on the eve of a market crack...