Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Washington's democratically-elected City Council had the power to enact these provisions, the city still remains at the mercy of Congress. Such is the state of affairs in the District, which until 1975 was not even allowed any form of self-government. In the same year, the city was granted an elected delegate in the House of Representatives; the only problem is, he can't vote...
...been getting the message. Lenders are recognizing that the $1.2 trillion debt load carried by the developing nations has stifled growth. No longer can the problem be papered over by stretching out payments, granting new loans and hoping for the best. Many bankers at least grudgingly support some form of debt relief -- an actual reduction in the amount of money owed. Still, the debate over how to provide that relief | has only begun. U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady suggested continuing the policies of his predecessor James Baker, who called for reforms of debtor economies as well as new loans from...
...Tell and Arms and the Man, each of which has had a major New York City production within the past three years. He had already abandoned a prodigious journalistic career as an essayist and a critic of art, theater and music -- although he insisted his dramas too were a form of journalism and derived their value from that. He had made the Fabian Society his personal soapbox and successfully promoted it as an intellectual center for the British left. Had he done no more, a place in history would have been secure. Yet he lived for another half-century...
...slightly slaphappy innovators of sportswear and merchandising trends. A long black wool coat from 1983, with flowing gold satin insets along its back and sleeves, constructed of curved seams, is a masterly combination of grand luxe and offhand invention, a subtle experiment in enlarging the possibilities of wearable form. Beene calls it "probably the single most significant piece of clothing I ever designed...
Thursday morning, as I sat in front of the television watching NASA technicians worry the Discovery through its countdown, I ate a star for breakfast. The star was in the form of a waffle. It consisted mostly of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, with a sprinkling of other elements. Except for the hydrogen, those atoms had been forged in a star that exploded and died long before our sun and solar system were born. The hydrogen was made in the big bang that allegedly began the universe. Some astronomers think that it was on dust grains floating in interstellar space...