Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts have bombarded the American education process with criticism, charging that it turns out students deficient in even the three "R's." Politicians hoping to woo voters have taken up this fight, announcing dramatic plans for rehauling the schools. And last but not least, journalists themselves have joined the fray, printing endless articles deploring the deterioration of the schools and demanding action...
Today, after a few years' leave from politics to concentrate on his real estate business, Lucey is back in the fray. A fellow at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, he is also supporting former Senator-Walter F. Mondale's presidential bid and trying to develop "alternative" American policy positions for Central America...
...sometimes I have to step in the fray, becoming a target of most cruel blows, it is not at all by natural taste, but because someone must finally make up his mind to take a position...
...city's financial image began to fray in 1979. Newly elected Mayor Jane Byrne reported that her predecessors had used creative accounting in order to make the city's bottom line look better than it actually was. But then Byrne, who was facing a bitter re-election battle, played a similar patchwork game with her 1983 budget...
...Easter Bunny at the White House egg roll? Was she a Munchkin? If so, did that mean the President was the Wizard of Oz? Was his daughter, who was brought into the fray, in any way like a 600-pound gorilla? And where was Ursula Meese? Such was the level of debate last week over the Administration's approach to ending discrimination against women...