Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush and Dan Quayle. His guests drifted into the night and toward the victory celebration in the White House West Wing and delirious parties up and down the capital's broad avenues. Ronald and Nancy Reagan stayed among the White House ghosts and their memories, the Reagan legacy now given a new lease on life...
...history. Some 16,500 personal-injury lawsuits had been filed by industrial workers who claimed that they had developed lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases as a result of inhaling Manville-produced asbestos fibers. More than 50,000 other alleged victims were preparing to sue. Juries had already given damage awards of $1 million to several individuals, so the company's potential liability was overwhelming. Even if the company were liquidated, the anticipated claims could not be paid...
There is another curious reason why the California eggs may not taste very different from the ordinary variety. According to the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md., the high cholesterol counts that have given ordinary eggs their bad reputation may have been wrong to begin with. Using newer methods of testing, researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven have found that conventional eggs contain between 172 and 232 mg of cholesterol, instead of the 274 previously measured. That would place them somewhat closer to the count of Rosemary Farm eggs. So even if the brave...
When they were not firing muskets loaded with rusty nails into each other's faces, they were engaged in a competitive warmth-out -- Michael Dukakis trying furiously to grin, with meager results; Bush's grin wandering, with random abundance, all over his face and off into the air. Given his wrinkles (and his plight), Lloyd Bentsen's grin was hard to distinguish from a wince. Off to the side, Dan Quayle was giving high school students his version of the Stephen Sondheim lyric "Lovely is the one thing...
...after playing second fiddle to senior Mark Brubaker in Yale's games against Navy, Army, Columbia, and Penn, Kehler was given the starting job against Dartmouth on October...