Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truest sense, baseball appeals to each of us in our desire to go home, to have a past that we can be secure in. Baseball fans, though, don't just want to return home; they want to suffocate...
...only the Cubs would have won, so we didn't have to go home again...
After an extensive debate, the council voted to send a "home-rule" petition to the state legislature, asking that the city be allowed to charge developers a fee of three dollars per square foot on new construction that exceeds 30,000 square feet in area. The money raised by these so-called "linkage" fees would be placed in a trust fund to help build housing for city residents with low-to-moderate incomes...
Should the home-rule petition be adopted by the state, it would return to the council, which would then have the option of passing legislation to implement...
...Philippine government continued to block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off disturbances that could threaten the country's economic recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political career was ignited when massive crowds turned out for the 1983 burial of her husband Ninoy, assassinated while being escorted by Marcos' soldiers...