Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with, it sure seems to me a bad precedent to take NHL disputes into the court system. It's not like there are a few, say, felonious assaults, in any given game. Ajudicating roughing penalties between Boston's Jay Miller and New Jersey's Jim Korn is just what our court system needs...
...Although this is a diverse group and there are not a lot of things we agree on among ourselves in any given legislative year," Flaherty said, "we all unanimously agree that Congressman Kennedy has done an absolutely outstanding job...and is very much deserving of re-election...
...intifadeh has given birth to a diffuse and decentralized underground of local popular committees and anonymous coordinators that has survived both the murder of al-Wazir and the arrest of nearly 5,000 Palestinians since December. Many of the local leaders are adherents of one P.L.O. faction or another, but they evidently do not take orders from anyone outside the occupied territories. Rather, decisions made within the occupied territories appear to be approved and ratified by the Palestinian leadership in exile...
...Senator and candidate, Bobby revived for millions the hopes that died with his brother. Even among skeptics, there was a sense that Kennedy grew into his own after his brother died. History -- two assassinations, a war, a racial struggle -- changed him, says Schlesinger, and given time he might have changed history...
...endless seas of eager hands and exciting admiring crowds. Bush has apologized to his supporters for not being adroit at articulating his emotions, and Dukakis has campaigned on the premise that the voters are tired of charisma. But Bobby was able to spark excitement by articulating dreams. Given today's dearth of passion, it is no wonder that the young people who embraced politics in the '60s -- and whose faith in government was undermined by Viet Nam, assassinations and Watergate -- should remember Kennedy as a hero...