Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan has chosen Institute of Politics (IOP) director and former Pennsylvania Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh to replace Attorney General Edwin Meese III, a knowledgeable administration source said yesterday...
...told reporters earlier yesterday that he would soon appoint a successor for Meese, who announced last week that he would leave the Justice Department by early August. Meese said he had been vindicated by Independent Counsel James McKay's investigation of alleged wrongdoing during Meese's tenure as attorney general...
Cable News Network reported that Thornburgh,who left the Pennsylvania governorship last yearafter serving two four-year terms, had beeninterviewed by White House General Counsel A.B.Culvahouse...
...threatened. If below-average rainfall persists through mid-July, when the plants are pollinated, up to half of the crops could be lost. The sale of stockpiled crops from previous years will mitigate the effects of the drought, but rising corn prices are already putting pressure on cereal makers. General Mills last month boosted the retail prices of its breakfast brands 5%. Kraft is charging 8% more for its soybean oil-based margarine...
...play a character rather like herself: "I speak English perfectly well . . . I'm not dying from poverty . . . I want to play that kind of Hispanic woman, which is to say, an American citizen." This is an actress talking; these are show-biz pieties. But Moreno expresses as well a general Hispanic-American predicament. Hispanics want to belong to America without betraying the past. Yet we fear losing ground in any negotiation with America. Our fear, most of all, is of losing our culture...