Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proponents of the proposal act as if the issue isn't rent control at all. "Support Choice--Support 1-2-3," read the signs. A flyer from a pro-1-2-3 group asked wrongly, "Did you know that home ownership is illegal in Cambridge?" These and other claims of the campaign have been deceptive...
...argument usually heard for a capital-gains break -- that we need to encourage long-term investment.) What would reduce the lock-in effect even more, however -- without adding to the favorable treatment capital gains already enjoy -- would be to tax capital gains at death. People would then know that their gains could not escape tax forever...
Lucy Moore (Mary Stuart Masterson) has a baby, or will in a few weeks. In the modern fashion of adoption, the Spectors spend time getting to know her. And to like her -- Lucy has a lot to like. A blossom growing out of white trash, she teeters between unaffected adolescence and poignant maturity. But perhaps the Spectors are also rehearsing for parenthood; perhaps they are determined to send sweet signals across the barriers of culture, class and age. They realize that their ability to adopt her baby depends finally on Lucy's whim. So, effectively, they adopt Lucy...
...call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, he was certain that she was the right, perhaps only, person to do this...
...need to make something happen from the start." Caples said. "We know we can play better than last time...