Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major farm bill. Asked his view of a complex local agricultural issue, he replied with a joke: "Whatever you guys want, I'm for." That echoed his opportunistic statement to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago that a July vote against the creation of a Cabinet-level Veterans Department was a "mistake" resulting from "youthful indiscretion." He later tried to deny using the phrase, even though it had been broadcast on national TV, then explained that he thought his vote had been correct on the merits...
...last October's crash, has at least simmered down. In the first of a series of monthly program-trading reports, the New York Stock Exchange said last week that such transactions during July amounted to only 10.1% of the Big Board's volume. That percentage has declined from a level of 15% to 20% a year ago, according to some estimates...
...explosive as leaking gas fumes. Last week strikes, protests and demonstrations erupted in an arc of unrest that ranged from the Soviet Union's restless Baltic republics to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The immediate provocation for most of the popular outbursts was worsening economic deprivation. But on a deeper level, frustrated East Europeans were prodded into action by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's tantalizing vision of a reformed and freer model of Communism. The protests also underscored a generational shift to younger activists, whose hopes and experiences differ markedly from those of their elders...
...Quayle fail to level with your investigating lawyer, Robert Kimmitt, or was Kimmitt's investigation inadequate...
...know what the facts are. I have to wait and see what facts are driving this. I rode into a finance meeting ((in New Orleans)) on a fire engine, and you find reporters screaming, frantically, diesel fuel all over, "Hey, what about this?" Yes, there's been a heightened level of attention. Put it that...