Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bertin, associate director of the A.C.L.U. women's group: "The question is, Should a woman with a pregnancy disability get her job back when other employees with disabilities get fired? You undermine your argument unless you say everyone is equally entitled to this benefit." The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case this fall...
...White House halls turning off lights to save electricity. In the depths of the energy crisis, Jimmy Carter turned down the thermostat in the Oval Office and put on a sweater. So, as the national furor over the drug crisis continues to grow, it was not altogether startling to hear Ronald Reagan offer to take a urine test to determine if he has consumed any narcotics lately -- and to ask his entire Cabinet to follow suit...
...trio. "Can't you move any faster than that, son?" barks an officer, after ordering the new men to unpack and then repack their belongings. One panicked inmate starts to respond. Snarls the officer: "You don't ask me questions, son! Do you understand that?" "Yessir." "I can't hear you. Speak up, son!" "Yessir!" Minutes later, the young men are sitting in straight- backed chairs having their hair mowed to a stubble...
...Airlines, is 17 ft. by 46 ft.) is a bit like seeing one of the lost panoramas that were so popular in 19th century America scrolling creakily past, a journey re-created as spectacle, stripped of its pastoral imagery and retooled in terms of media glut. Hey, look! you hear the nasal voice of the artist saying: this is what the banks of the electronic Mississippi look like as they glide by. Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger than life: a red fingernail the size of a mudguard, a slough of squirming orange spaghetti, a girl whose perfect...
...over and over, until the other side wearily relented. He was endlessly patient, but knew when to be brusque. When a North Vietnamese negotiator disrupted the Laotian talks with abusive rhetoric, Harriman "accidentally" pressed the talk button on his microphone and remarked to an aide so that all could hear, "Did that little bastard say we started World...