Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share power? Solidarity leader Lech Walesa could see no good reason last week as he turned down an invitation from President Wojciech Jaruzelski to join a grand coalition government with the Communist Party. After a two-hour closed meeting with Jaruzelski at the President's residence in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace, Walesa declared, "I must say I don't envy the President. He has an awful lot of problems...
...yield the jackpots that the public imagines. Rand found that airlines and other defendants paid victims' families less than half their average "economic loss," the value of what the deceased would have earned in a normal lifetime. Jury verdicts averaged $599,000 per victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that lawyers will continue to litigate these cases avidly. As insurer Magee puts it, "This whole business has come to take on a lottery mentality. If someone gets hurt this week, then they rush to court to see what numbers come...
Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
...indication that Bush's visit to Eastern Europe last month helped resolve the deadlock over the Polish presidency; General Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed to run and narrowly won with the tolerance of Solidarity's Lech Walesa. The diplomatic and intelligence assessments of the President's personal diplomacy have generally been good, emphasizing that a network embracing Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow is a going concern...
...blond-haired good looks, on-camera charisma and a journalistic resume that stretches from Three Mile Island to 60 Minutes. No wonder Sawyer has made it to the top. But her skillful mix of style and substance raises questions about the growing impact of stars in TV news. Are these high-paid personalities worth the money? More important, do they deserve our trust...