Word: fallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall into the habit of foreign borrowing to cover our deficits...
...mobsters (the Colombo family) and corrupt politicians (former Bronx Democratic leader Stanley Friedman), announced that after 5 1/2 years as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he would resign at month's end. Gotham Republicans, a tiny band of inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able this fall to field a candidate for mayor who might actually have a chance. Giuliani coyly remarked that "I have not shut the door on the possibility," and incumbent Edward I. Koch, who has been hurt by Giuliani's prosecutions of corrupt henchmen, allowed that the 44- year-old prosecutor would...
...magnolia-lined grounds of the University of Mississippi last August, arsonists torched the first black fraternity house before its members had even moved in. At Memphis State University last fall, the Jewish Student Union was spray-painted with swastikas. Gay men and lesbians at the University of Texas at Austin have been pelted with rocks and beer bottles while participating in campus parades. At Temple University in Philadelphia, 130 undergraduates have formed a White Students Union dedicated to fighting affirmative-action programs and promoting "white pride...
...Americans, who make up 26.5% of Berkeley's undergraduate population, are an especially | tempting target for abuse because of their high academic performance. "People say they're too motivated," explains a student. "Especially in the sciences, whites are insecure." Such fears may even have tainted the admissions process: last fall the Department of Education launched an inquiry to determine whether Harvard and UCLA had set illegal quotas to limit Asian students...
...company attributes the renewed interest partly to last fall's debut of several new Davy Crockett episodes on NBC. But this time the fad is as big with moms and dads as it is with preteen frontiersmen...