Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gift may nevertheless be refused. Government acceptance will need special congressional approval, thanks to a law written by Shultz's tenacious Senate adversary Jesse Helms. The conservative North Carolina Republican argues that providing living quarters for the Secretary of State would be unfair to other Cabinet members, all of whom have to find their own accommodations in the capital. Last year Helms won passage for a measure that specifically bans the Secretary from soliciting or receiving property for an official residence...
...1930s Maidenform shocked the world by using photos of actual women modeling its bras in national advertisements. For the past year, the company has gone to the opposite extreme: featuring actors Omar Sharif, Michael York and L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen, musing about ladies and lingerie with nary a bra, teddy or pair of panties in sight. Owing in part to the $10 million campaign, Maidenform's revenues rose 11% this year, to $200 million...
...most profound quarrel many Westerners have with the Soviets is that their totalitarian system represses the individual. But Gorbachev stressed the Soviet goal of creating a "world community of states based on the rule of law." Sounding more like Jefferson than Lenin, he spoke of "ensuring the rights of the individual," guaranteeing "freedom of conscience" and forbidding persecution based on "political or religious beliefs...
...Gorbachevs came to Manhattan, Charles and Di with substance and multiple warheads. They gave their regards to Broadway and Bloomingdale's and proved that all it takes to keep traffic moving in New York is the near imposition of martial law: 6,600 of the city's finest, plus the peacekeeping forces of the U.N., the FBI, the FAA, the KGB, the Secret Service and the Coast Guard. Like tourists in for the holidays, the Soviet Union's First Couple took in all the right places, both high (the World Trade Center's 107th-floor observation deck) and low (Times...
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