Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such speculation is unlikely to be fruitful. On the other hand, by looking at one specific person's reaction to the two main events, we might figure something out. Let's try President Bush...
Except maybe to emulate the success of the Athletics. The World Series is a novelty to the Giants, who haven't been in one for 27 years or won one in 35. The A's, on the other hand, are in their fifth since 1972 and have won three of their last four...
There is an explosion that occurs when freedoms are granted after a dictatorial regime. On the other hand, Spain is a Mediterranean society that lives a lot in the streets. At 3 in the morning, Madrid streets are still full of people coming out of restaurants, having a drink...
William Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the EPA and now chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
...Washington, where they rarely think of anything else, enough Congressmen read the political winds to hand right-to-lifers another reversal on the very day the Florida session ended. After voting for eight straight years to ban Medicaid funding for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, the House voted 216 to 206 to allow payments for poor women who become pregnant through rape or incest. Twenty-six House members who opposed such funding in 1988 changed sides...