Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...information] cannot be with-held from the City Council under any circumstances," said Duehay. "It is too important...
...Captain and goaltender Jennifer White, who suffered a concussion in the game, was superb in the nets, stopping 46 Providence shots. According to Trotman, "She was phenomenal--the key factor that held us in the game...
...Dukakis was (among other things) declaring his independence from Jackson when he said, "This campaign is not about ideology. It's about competence." Jackson was the most prominent of the party's progressives -- and Jackson, not coincidentally, had never held office or managed anything with generally acknowledged competence. Dukakis, instead of recruiting the energies of his party's most zealous wing, as Bush had done by including Robertson's troops, was telling them in effect to get lost, or at least to lose their labels, while promoting his own credentials as a manager. It was a weird rallying...
What' s needed is modest increases that are so fair and sensible they virtually scream to be introduced. Financial writer Andrew Tobias offers a package of four tax hikes that would raise $40 billion a year without threatening to dampen growth. If the deficits can be held to $90 billion a year, they will eventually be dwarfed by the expanding economy...
George Bush does not have a deeply held personal agenda. He has few strong ideological or intellectual beliefs at all, other than a basic decency, patriotism and desire for people to be accommodating. A stark example: Bush was torn this fall when Congress debated a federal requirement that there be a seven-day waiting period before someone could purchase a handgun, a provision supported by many law-enforcement officials. "I wish the police chiefs and the gun owners could figure out a compromise," he lamented in an off moment. "I'm for both sides...