Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pander when voters challenge her judgment. She is, by temperament, uncomfortable with easy promises or hand-knit populism. Instead her rhetoric rings with noblesse oblige. "If you are born strong, with parents who give you the best, you have an even stronger responsibility for the people who didn't get the same start...
...electoral law, Russians protest, will exclude 80,000 to 100,000 of them from voting in Estonia's first competitive elections in December. Another law makes it necessary for all people to speak Estonian (as different from Russian as Hungarian is from English) to get a job. Though Russians have four years to comply, they protest angrily that there are not enough teachers or textbooks available for all of them to learn...
...blasts other newspapers for giving reporters free reign to pursue investigative and analytic stories he considers of limited interest. Says Ingersoll: "There has been a general breakdown of discipline in American newsrooms in the past generation. It got to the point by the early '80s where you couldn't get the best young reporters to aspire to be editors anymore...
...furs are gone, the mecca for wealthy consumers may be yielding its profits to a new owner. Campeau, meanwhile, must find more ways to meet $1 billion in annual interest payments. Says retailing analyst Walter Loeb: "He's going to have to sell more than just Bloomingdale's to get out of the hole he's dug for himself...
...press conference in Valdez. They named the "dirty dozen" beaches that they charge are still fouled with oil and announced their own modest $21 million winter cleanup program, at least part of which will be paid for by Exxon. The message to the company was clear: You didn't get the job done, and you're leaving too early...