Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Religion, patriotism and a tragic history fed a current of romantic fatalism that runs deep in the Polish character...
...released last week by the Federal Reserve Board showed that industrial production dropped by 2.1% in November, the fourth monthly decline in a row. That was the largest one-month slump since May of 1980, and was a clear signal that worse difficulties are still to come. Meanwhile, the Fed also reported that the nation's factories operated at a mere 74.9% of capacity during the month, a decline of 2 percentage points from the October level and of 4.4 percentage points from the rate of one year...
...creek bend where a grisly ambush occurred, and the ridge where Jim Vance (a Hatfield inlaw) made a hellbent stand against far too many McCoys. And they think they know who was to blame, though their opinions tend to run along family lines. Robert McCoy, 36, the well-fed and worldly mayor of Matewan, points a finger at the meddlesome Hatfields who invaded the election grounds: "Politics-that was what the whole thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy, twice the mayor's age, takes his own backhanded swipe: "Those poor Hatfields...
...handed a story by the head of an FBI task force out to break Miami's organized crime ring in any way he can. Meghan obligingly reports the story, implicating honest longshoreman Mike Gallagher (Paul Newman) in a Jimmy Hoffa-esque murder. As she presses further, Meghan is fed stories by Gallagher's childhood buddy Teresa (Melinda Dillon) and eventually by Gallagher himself, each of which she prints in an ostensible effort to be fair. The point is clear enough: Each story Meghan writes is accurate as far as it goes, but because each contains only a small piece...
...lurch to the left and formed the S.D.P. At that point, the party was little more than an idea whose time seemed yet to come, but its centrist, common-sense positions promptly attracted dissidents from Labor disgusted with the party's swing left and Tories equally fed up with the intransigence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's archconservatism. This fall, the S.D.P. forged an alliance with the Liberal Party to fight the next general election due by spring 1984. The latest Gallup poll showed that if an election were held now the S.D.P./Liberal alliance would...