Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote, in which 42 Republicans joined 189 Democrats in the unsuccessful bid to enact the bill over the president's veto, left intact an 8-year-old ban of federal financing of abortions for poor women, except when their lives are threatened...
...Republican electoral coalition. As long as the middle class has remained relatively unaffected by Washington's retreat, the Republican strategy has paid off handsomely, most recently in Bush's 1988 election and his extraordinary 75% current approval rating in the polls. Making sure the Republican coalition stays intact seems to be the Administration's major priority. Secretary of State James Baker, asked to comment on Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's criticism of Bush's tepid handling of the situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, replied, "The President is rocking along with a 70% approval rating...
...strikes in churches, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offers a gentle lecture in person -- none of it seemed to make a difference. But last week as the cries for democratic reform reached a crescendo in cities across East Germany, the leaders in East Berlin demonstrated that their hearing faculties were intact -- and that they were distressed by the rising noise level...
...knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...
From the start, Lynn recalls, Vanessa weathered the rackety Redgraves with ego intact: "She was the only one of us who wasn't shy. If someone asked her to get up and sing, it wouldn't have bothered her for three seconds." The family's expectation that Redgrave would go into show business was tempered by her abrupt adolescent growth spurt to an eventual 5 ft. 11 in. She towered over classmates of both sexes and was considered too tall for anything but character parts. Her father had her study ballet so she would move well and tap dancing...