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Word: file (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the restaurant will file for a liquor license in January, it will not open until the summer, Kilgore said. "Construction begins in March," he said, "the renovations include stone pillars on the front like a Federal period building...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Yuppie Chains to Open Boston Branches | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

...flamboyant former ward heeler in Daley's Cook County Democratic organization who served a month in prison in 1972 for failing to file income tax returns for four years, Washington broke away from both the machine and his past to become a symbol of black political empowerment. Turmoil marked his 4 1/2 years in city hall, as he fought to consolidate his political control over a city evenly divided between blacks and whites. After winning a bitter, racially tinged election in 1983, Washington told rejoicing black supporters, "It's our turn now." But his attempt to take charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Loss in the Family: Harold Washington: 1922-1987 | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Prime Minister Giovanni Goria's fragile five-party coalition government. But the walkout was also an attempt by the federations to reassert their muscle in the face of a series of wildcat strikes staged this fall by independent labor organizations. The COBAS (for Comitati di Base, or rank-and-file committees) have sprung up to counter the ineffectiveness of organized labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Season of Strikes and Discontent | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...guilty when they are beated and think it's their fault because this doesn't happen to good people or rich people or successful people." Battered wives with low self-esteem who are given the impression that they bear some responsibility for their own beatings are not likely to file charges or leave their husbands. And then wife-beating will remain one of the most common unreported crimes...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Who's Come a Long Way? | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Under a new interpretation, just effected last month, all undocumented persons who have lived in the country since 1982, with no more than a total 180 days spent outside of the country, can return with amnesty. This new, more liberal interpretation will permit several hundred aliens to file with...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Kennedy Calls on Community To Reach Out to Immigrants | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

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