Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While campaign politicking may be a new frontier for seniors, their clout has long been felt in Washington. When congressional and Administration budget negotiators sought to cut the deficit in the wake of the Wall Street crash, they briefly considered a proposal to scale down Social Security cost-of- living increases. Congressman Claude Pepper, 87, held a press conference to announce that he would force a separate House vote on the issue. The Gray Lobby went to work. The result? Although programs for the elderly account for one-third of the budget, negotiators dropped the proposal in a fright. "These...
...black community had feared that the defendants would, like Goetz, be acquitted of all major charges. As it turned out, however, three youths face up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter: Jon Lester, 18, Scott Kern, 18, and Jason Ladone, 17. Many of those involved in the trial felt that at least a measure of justice had been meted out. Said Jean Griffith: "God, in the end, did what was right...
Gorbachev was already showing wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. "I cannot even say for which subjects I felt a special interest in school," he told an Italian interviewer much later. "At the outset I wanted to enter the physics faculty ((of Moscow State University)). I liked mathematics a lot, but I also liked history and literature. To this day I can recite by heart poetry that I learned at school." He lacked the entrance requirements to pursue science courses, so he decided to study...
From the moment Gary Hart punctuated his withdrawal speech last May with a defiant "Hell, no!," the Democratic Party should have seen it coming. Why would Hart have donned sackcloth on national television in September and admitted marital infidelity, unless he felt a compelling political need to get the Monkey Business off his back? At 51, Hart is too ambitious, too driven and, yes, too arrogant to be satisfied with speaking to impressionable sophomores in half-empty auditoriums, just another penitent on the lecture circuit. With the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary two months away, Hart was still...
Friends describe Lee, a former real estate agent, as fiercely strong, striving through the rocky years to hold her family together. "I have always put my own personal feelings aside, because I believe in a person, not because he is my husband but because I have felt he has something to offer to this country," she said last week. Andrea adds, "We don't elect superhumans. We elect human beings who will make mistakes...