Word: inked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan, Mondale's people argue, should be vulnerable on the issues. There is, for starters, the deficit: instead of balancing the budget as he promised, Reagan has tripled the red ink, to $190 billion. There are questions of war and peace: the President's bellicose gibes at the Soviets, the Mondale camp argues, have frozen relations between the two superpowers. Lately though, Reagan has cooled his rhetoric, while the Soviets are sounding as mean as he portrays them. Then there is the charge that Reagan's economic policies have demonstrably favored the rich at the expense...
...White House, that "he is one of us." Walter Mondale, on the other hand, is one of them: the Washington bureaucrats, the lobbyists, the big spenders in Congress, who have-at least in the world according to Reagan-ensnarled the nation in red tape and drowned it in red ink...
...studies. Concerned, the Corporation successfully petitioned the legislature to draft a law preventing innkeepers from advancing credit to students. And in 1823, 43 of 70 students in the graduating class were expelled for a combination of discipline problems including bonfires in the Yard, cannonballs dropped from windows, strategically placed ink buckets, and class disturbances...
...election day, true to form, bottles of acetone, designed to counteract specially ordered indelible ink, appeared in some precincts; officials' relatives were seen voting five times in others. In Quezon City, 23,000 squatters were threatened with relocation unless they voted for the K.B.L.; in Manila some K.B.L. voters were rewarded with envelopes containing around $130. Tragically, the pandemonium of election week also resulted in 109 deaths, mostly caused by clashes involving guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army...
...possible, pay more attention to the highlighters. Granted, it would be difficult to keep a record of the condition of each book. But at the very least, people with the audacity to deface books on library premises should be hauled before the Ad Board while the Day-Glo ink is still wet. It won't enforce respect for books, but it might have some impact on the immediate problem...