Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy is generally considered a competent fiscal manager. At a performance review last week, several councillors praised his efforts to put the city on sound financial ground...
...bathroom as a focus for ingenuity and decorating style. "The Japanese have given up hopes of having a garden, and are spending money for comfortable dwellings," says sociologist Yukio Akatsuka. "The interest is now shifting from the living room to the bathroom." Though the seatless holes in the ground of stereotypical Western dread still exist in many parts of Japan, the newfangled WC is often a marvel of gadgetry...
Jeff says he would never be freeze-dried himself, or buried conventionally, when he dies. He prefers cremation. "I couldn't bear to be buried in that little bitty box in the ground," he says. Until such a distant time, however, he will continue to pursue his dream: a money-making gimmick no one has ever thought of before. He's already latched on to one in the far reaches of his imagination...
...deal effectively with crime has increased the public appetite for the death penalty. Conservatives must see that this society can be hard, even implacable, against criminals without killing them. If politicians will lower their voices and quit pandering to our worst fears and baser instincts, the search for common ground can begin...
...Bonn, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not take the setback lightly. His Christian Democrats have lost ground in six of the last eight regional elections. "It is a clear warning signal to all of us," he said. Kohl pledged to reassess policies dealing with refugees who seek asylum for economic, rather than political reasons, but warned that expulsion of foreign workers would jeopardize West Germany's standing abroad...