Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether those assets are immediately found is not imperative. Houghteling said that once the state levies its tax bill, it will have six years to collect. "So if three years from now [a dealer] buys a house on the Cape, that could be held to pay off his tax tab," she said...
Next day, standing below the soaring Workers Monument in Gdansk, the President wrapped his arm around Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and held the portly electrician next to him. At the Westerplatte Memorial, which marks the site of the first gunfire of World War II, Bush, draped in a large American flag by an exuberant Pole, reached into the crowd, picked up a small boy and hugged him as if he were one of his own eleven grandchildren...
...dash through Eastern Europe, trying to reach out and touch everyone, striving to bring down to personal terms his doctrine of homegrown political and economic freedoms and what they could mean for the burdened people of the Soviet bloc. He was consumed with the idea that the economic summit, held in Paris during the weekend, ought to give much of its attention to the stirrings in the long-troubled nations of the old empire...
Time disagreed on the ground that Warner shareholders would not be voting as a controlling group in the corporation. Allen concurred: "I am entirely persuaded of the soundness of the view that it is irrelevant for purposes of such determination that 62% of Time-Warner stock would have been held by former Warner shareholders." In fact, he added, "neither corporation could be said to be acquiring the other. Control of both remained in a large, fluid, changeable and changing market...
...mere hour's drive separates the prison farm where Nelson Mandela is being held and State President P.W. Botha's white-pillared residence in Cape Town. But the political distance between those two men has always seemed unbridgeable. They have personified the country's racial stalemate: Mandela, who turns 71 this week, insisted that he would make no deals with the white government while he remained a prisoner; Botha, 73, vowed that he would never free the symbolic leader of the nation's black majority unless Mandela forswore the use of violence...