Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Equal Rights Amendment and the 1973 Supreme Court ruling maintaining the right to an abortion its two minimal conditions for endorsement; activists have opposed many women candidates. The caucus is currently supporting Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in his fight against Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.), the founder and co-chair of the Congresswomen's Caucus, because Heckler opposes abortion...
...charges might have been a good deal worse for the Congressman, multimillionaire founder of Walco, maker of products ranging from motors to coffins. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Richmond for an array of other possible crimes, including ordering his staff to buy him cocaine, receiving an ille gal $100,000 annual pension from Walco and helping find a job as a mailroom clerk in the House for Earl Randolph, a fugitive who had been serving an 18-year term for aggravated assault in Massachusetts. After leaving the House job, Randolph was arrested...
...President-elect's father Pierre Gemayel was the founder and original leader of the Phalangist Party, a hardline, fervently nationalistic faction of the country's large Maronite Christian community. The youngest of six children, Bashir Gemayel enthusiastically embraced his father's conservative ideology, which was inspired by the nationalist movements of Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini...
DIED. George Woods, 81, World Bank president from 1963 to 1968 and a founder...
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the founder of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) visited St. Louis early this month, he pointedly congratulated 7-Up for its commitment to black-run enterprises over the next five years. Then he met with a group of black businessmen and made a rather blunt proposition: to finance a drive designed to encourage the Anheuser-Busch brewery to give more contracts to minority firms, they should each donate $500 to Operation PUSH. Said Jackson: "We're all family here, but you have to pay to play...