Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next to an ardent Bosox fan. You'll hear stories of the 1967 squad with Lonborg and Yazstremski, the 1975 squad with Fisk, Lynn, Tiant and pinch-hitter extraordinaire Bernie Carbo and the 1986 squad with Clemens, Boggs, Evans and Barrett...
WHILE these stories certainly reveal a great deal about America and the people who live here, they do start to sound a little bit corny after a while. (If you read More Like Us in a very still room, you can hear "God Bless America" playing softly in the background.) Still, the American Dream is a hard thing to write about without doing too much flag-waving, and Fallows manages to survive with some degree of objective credibility when he writes about these people who have made the American Dream come true for them...
...hoped "that your board and management will now discontinue your efforts to preclude stockholder choice and give Time's shareholders an opportunity to consider our offer." Time promised to consider the new bid "in due course" and advised its stockholders "not to act on the offer until they hear from Time...
...evasion and drug-trafficking conviction. The judge who received the commissioner's letter was so appalled that he turned the sentencing over to another jurist (Peters got two years) and leveled the loud opinion that by vouching for a witness in a case he had yet to hear, Giamatti had biased himself outrageously. George Palmer, a former state-appeals-court judge, and Samuel Dash, famed Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings, last week took the stand on Rose's behalf to endorse that view. They thought Dowd's 225- page finding read less like an investigator's report than...
...morning after the court had, with great heaving and sighing, delivered the flag decision, George Bush hit the Oval Office about 7:l5. He did not even want to hear about the state of the world from his CIA briefer until he had dealt with flag burning. In the three-minute walk from his apartment upstairs, he probably saw the flag in the Yellow Room or maybe the one in the Blue Room. Maybe he glanced down toward the Mall and spied the 50 flags at the base of the Washington Monument. If he missed all those flags, there...