Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that led not only to a yearlong bus boycott but also to the "official" beginning of the nonviolent movement. The first thing she remembered, and not from the time it happened, was an image of Governor George Wallace looming in a doorway at the University of Alabama, unwilling to let any black student enter. The fact that she was neither a participant in the movement nor a well-versed student of it did not prevent her, as it did not prevent her with Viet Nam, from having an intuitive sense of what was needed...
...become a cliche that the Indians would have made out like bandits if they had merely invested the $24 they got at 8% (let alone in Fidelity's Magellan mutual fund). They'd have had $32 trillion by now. But the point is, they didn't take cash and invest it, they took trinkets. Today we're taking Nintendo games and Honda Preludes...
...while there was massed clucking over the size of Reagan's fee and Ford's continued service on corporate boards, the Communist world was declaring the profit motive holy writ. Not let a retired President participate in capitalism and make a noble buck? That would be a sort of excommunication from America...
...defined "hodgepodge." Committee spokesman James Currie added that conducting any high-risk covert operation just before a presidential election could unduly and unpredictably influence the election if the operation became public. Said Currie: "No matter what side you're on, you probably don't want to let a U.S. election turn on that kind of crap shoot, especially if there's no reason it has to be done right then...
...Poles have installed a Solidarity-led government, but that new leadership is brushing up against its own lack of experience. Within the Sejm, Solidarity is having problems enforcing party discipline. Out in the provinces, the government is having an even tougher time persuading Communist officials to relinquish their privileges, let alone their posts...