Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three are seeing a surge in interest. HAND, which links each Harvard house with a Cambridge neighborhood in the provision of a wide range of social services, is particularly successful. HAND posters deck the walls of all thirteen houses; on each, a roughly sketched hand beckons students to join the program. Gump says he expects 400 students to participate in the program this year...
What is to be done? Refusing to eat Whoppers or to skip that headache-filled stroll through Downtown Crossing simply translates into moral purism. Such acts might also lead the quasi-veggie to join a commune tucked away in a Vermont forest or isolated on a northern California sea-cliff. But a seclusion without frozen Swanson's brownies or the pulpy grease of Quarter Pounders also loses out on the potentially progressive parts of an often despicable society...
...four Soviet writers jetted to the U.S. to join Shalnev. They checked into the Madison Hotel, one of capitalism's lush decampments. The White House crew asked them to lunch at another sophisticated watering hole in the Jefferson Hotel. There was much laughter and goodwill and joking about Gorbachev's cutting down Soviet vodka and, of course, a hearty round of Bloody Marys for the occasion...
...both the Democrats and Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee have been reluctant to join the tax-reform crusade. Under pressure from a horde of special-interest groups that oppose many provisions of the bill, the committee members felt that Reagan and Rostenkowski were trying to railroad them into hasty action. But Rostenkowski finally got things moving last week by agreeing not to curb deductions for state and local taxes. Reagan had wanted to eliminate the deductions completely, and Rostenkowski had favored strict limits on them. These proposals provoked vehement opposition from high-tax states, including California, with...
...needs 256 yards to join White among the top five all-time on the total offense list...