Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russell, a noted political satirist, said he has had great fun lampooning President Reagan. Dukakis and Bush will prove to be harder, less exciting targets for his barbs, Russell said...
...mother says that she thinks children's museums are great for getting young children active in the learning process but adds that she thinks Summer Splash caters to a slightly older crowd. "We've been to two in the New York area, but this one seems made for older children, ones who are in elementary school or so. I'm not sure how much [my daughter] understands...
What can Bush do now? Pick Bob Dole? Name any movie Bob Dole has starred in. Even if Bush does choose an actor to balance out the Stewart factor, who will he turn to? Sly Stallone? Robert Mitchum? Stewart is Hollywood. He is the last of the great film giants, a guaranteed box-office smash...
...Reagan dispatched a formal five-paragraph note to Iran expressing "deep regret." The President told aides he considered this an apology that satisfied the nation's obligations, but his public comments were measured in the extreme. Reagan allowed that the shooting down of the Iranian airbus was a "great tragedy," but soon belittled even that cliched description by also calling it an "understandable accident...
Words may be small balm in the face of pictures showing lifeless children plucked from the Persian Gulf. But there is something disturbing when a great nation finds itself mute in the face of its own complicity in disaster. Corporations are not expected to show soul, yet immediately after the Bhopal disaster the chairman of Union Carbide took the risk of making a symbolic pilgrimage to India. Personal gestures of atonement are commonplace in other cultures: the president of Japan Air Lines resigned because 520 passengers perished in a 1985 plane crash...