Word: givens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painted to be. We've come here to succeed, not to fail. We've come here to negotiate, not to push other people's heads. What have we been fighting for really? For one man, one vote. I think we deserve it. We've given our lives for Zimbabwe and we must...
...evening. If Johnson has made too much of a two-dimensional character (why are you in love with Barbara Allen?), it is not his fault. Kate Silverman as Barbara Allen does yeoman's service to an unimaginative role. If the scene in the bedroom after she has given birth to a witch is overdone, she's not to blame...
Lampoon President Andrew S. Borowitz '80 praised Yorkin for his work with Norman Lear on productions such as "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son." "This is the first 'nice' award the Lampoon has given in recent memory--maybe more than recent memory," Borowitz added...
...duties as a substitute teacher. "They are two things--coaching and teaching--that are very close and an opportunity that I'd like to try again later." And what of the traditional tormenting of substitute teachers? "I coach a lot of the kids I teach, so they haven't given me any trouble...
...world jumped, in different directions. International financiers praised Volcker's move; after all, he announced the policy immediately after returning from an International Monetary Fund conference in Belgrade, where those same financiers had most likely given him a pep talk for such a program. Stock market investors ran scared, seeing only the deepening recession Volcker's plan would induce. Liberal politicians didn't like this talk of lowering the standard of living for the sake of such unromantic concepts as "managing the money aggregates." Bankers, who had always looked to the Fed as a bellwether for interest rates, were...