Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really a baseball fan, although I love the game dearly. I do not know who won the NL Golden Glove for center field in 1972. I'd be lousy at Strat...
...million in 1980, after Congress struck down the rule that people must purchase their stamps. Some officials view the cuts as a chance to pare administrative costs as well as marginally effective programs. Says Democratic State Representative Francine Panehal of Ohio: "It's a golden opportunity to get rid of programs that were worthless and prop up those that really work...
...most important fight last week was over dairy prices. The 1977 farm bill supported milk products at 80% of parity. That means that the price farmers receive for milk products represents 80% of the buying power relative to prices in 1910-14, which were golden years for farmers. The Senate Agriculture Committee's bill would have set milk price supports at 75% of parity, at a cost of $4.5 billion over five years. But the Senate, by a vote of 51 to 42, approved an amendment by Iowa Republican Roger Jepsen substituting the Administration's original proposal...
...which later appear in the Hebrew tradition: Abraham, the spiritual forefather of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and his biblical ancestor Eber (whose name formed the root of the term Hebrew). Even Matthiae, who now scorns such Bible links, had once suggested that Ebrium, the king during Ebla's golden age, might have evolved into the Eber of Genesis...
...sudden, should sick cat jokes prove so appealing? For one thing, since the triumph of Poland's Solidarity union movement, Polish jokes are out. For another, many people are being made aware of long-hidden resentment of the pampered pets and their golden-eyed contempt toward the humans privileged to support them. Pop Psychologist Joyce Brothers regards ailurophobia, at least in its literary form, as a harmless put-on. "If you get upset at this," she says, "you have too much emotional involvement in your pet." Harvey Mindess, an authority on the psychology of humor, sniffs: "101 Uses proves...