Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communists aren't the only victims of "liberal principles." The Harvard administration and Epps in particular have become an iron heel under which all aspects of student life are crushed . Following in the muddy footsteps of James Watt, Epps stumped on students' rights to listen to the music of then choice and killed the Grateful Dead. Epps ruled that the Harvard Band's use of Shakespeare was "vulgar" and ordered them to march to the beat of his drum. Freedom of religion will also be done away with in 1984 as the administration thumbs its nose at Jewish students...
...cutbacks. Thatcher reacted with feigned dismay. "Mr. Lubbers, are you really intending to cut the salaries of your public employees by more than 3%?" she demanded. "That's a disaster. I am supposed to be the toughest in Europe. You are going to ruin my reputation as the Iron Lady...
After little more than a year as Prime Minister, Rudolphus Franciscus Maria Lubbers. 44, has not just dented the Iron Lady's reputation. He has transformed The Netherlands from one of Western Europe's freest-spending welfare states into its leading belt tightener. During Lubbers' visit to Washington this week for talks with President Reagan, however, Holland's pivotal role in another issue will top the agenda. Alone among the NATO allies destined to receive new medium-range missiles. Holland has not yet made a final decision to accept them. Amid rising fears that the powerful...
...little cul-de-sae was badly paved, full of humps and holes, bordered by narrow, partly ruined sidewalks. It worked its way like a finger between private houses of one or two stores, pressing one against the other. The little street stopped at iron gates overgrown with scraggly vines...
...Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a program that provides food supplements such as milk, eggs, juice, and iron-fortified infant formula to pregnant and nursing women, children and infants. To receive WIC aid, the recipients must have low income and be certified by a medical professional to be in danger of illness from malnutrition...