Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While critics focus on her ERA and abortion votes, O'Connor notes that her legislative achievements ranged from tax relief to flood-control funding to restoring the death penalty. "She worked interminable hours and read everything there was," says Democratic State Senator Alfredo Gutierrez. "It was impossible to win a debate with her. We'd go on the floor with a few facts and let rhetoric do the rest. Not Sandy. She would overwhelm you with her knowledge...
...than there were when the agency was created in 1973, and this is directly contributing to the surge in violent crime. Indeed, the alarming trend may accelerate: a new jolt of heroin from the poppy fields of "the Golden Crescent"-Iran, Iraq and Pakistan-is starting to flood the East Coast...
...superb historian, McCullough (The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood) has done his homework on everything affecting Teddy's early life...
Baby oil covered the wooden floor, a flood of Johnson's seeping out from behind the mudgreen canvas curtain. This hall, on the seen better-days grounds of Exposition Park in Springfield, usually hosts the sort of "family fun" that draws disposable income to amusement parks--four-piece combos that play "K-K-K-Katy" and "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover." The roller coaster next door has been closed down, and a few kiddy rides, a haunted house, and a miniature golf course are about all that's left. But this pavillion with the corner soaked...
Savings banks and S and L institutions are suffering badly from the nation's double-digit interest rates, which have flattened the housing market, savaged the mortgage-lending business and caused upwards of $43 billion to flood out of bank deposits and into higher yielding investments like money-market funds. As a result, the industry has for months been pushing a tax-subsidized savings plan known as the "all-savers" certificate as a way to solve its problems. The proposal has now taken a big step forward with votes by key committees of both the House and Senate...