Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE spent a significant amount of time and energy trying to convince people that New Jersey is a nice place. I answer "New Jersey!"--not "New York!"--when people ask me where I'm from. I call the Giants the New Jersey Giants, expound upon the undisturbed beauty of the Pine Barrens, and even pretend to like Bruce Springsteen on occasion...
Then in 1985, model Julianne Phillips married the Boss and the sound of broken hearts could be heard all the way down the New Jersey shore...
...Alabama law that provided for a moment of silent "meditation or voluntary prayer" in the public schools, Powell and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in separate concurrences that a simple moment-of-silence law might be constitutional. This week the court will hear arguments concerning a New Jersey law that merely permits a moment of silent "contemplation and introspection." Two lower courts have already found the law unconstitutional, after concluding that despite its neutral language, the statute has a religious purpose...
...When I was a kid in New Jersey," says Ron, "I used to go to the dump to hunt rats. There was this guy named Mike who lived there in a big refrigerator crate. I remember one day he was cooking up some potatoes he'd found, and he suddenly looked around and said to me, arms outstretched, 'This place is rich. Rich.' It really made an impression...
Hughes and Saxton pointed to a series of pollution problems this summer that led to the closing of some New Jersey beaches, threatening the tourism and fishing industries as well as the environment...