Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refusing to change and mature--hardcore as a form has only been incorporated into pop as a new technique, not changed its own musical focus. But the original reasons for the hardcore movement still exist. Teenagers are still facing odds stacked against employment; they are still being force-fed the same kind of marshamallow pop music that has been an FM staple since the mid-1970s...
...over the hills on horseback, his hounds in full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam and a narrow mind, last week chased...
Another rare pigment is a brilliant yellow derived from the urine of Indian cows fed large quantities of mango leaves When they realized that the mango leaf diet was killing the cows, the British-- in a move typical of imperial altruism--banned the production of "Indian Yellow." The big chunk of it in the Center's collection is one of the only surviving samples...
...attempts to reduce or eliminate these loans were thwarted by a Federal Reserve Board that contended that loans to foreign countries should not be criticized, and by bank executives who argued that such countries could not go bankrupt or fail to exist. In view of the current situation, the Fed and the bankers should remember that they were told that even in lower Manhattan the chickens would come home to roost...
...Riverside, Calif., which was one of the church's largest (1,000 members), claims that dark-shirted "finance policemen" demanded that he turn over $40,000 in the mission's treasury. He complied, and has since set up a new church unaffiliated with Scientology. "I got fed up with the young guys," he says. "The church has been attacking its own loyal people...