Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Statistics such as these need no further elucidation--they plead for action and reveal costs on a human level that our society can no longer tolerate...
While it is too early yet to tell the long range effects of these programs, it is an active response that recognizes the immense activity necessary to halt the street level trade, the life-force of the growing crack industry...
Councillors also expressed concern at the level of traffic and asked Healy whether the business could be classified as a fast food restaurant. Fast food establishments must obtain an additional permit before opening, said Councillor Alice K. Wolf...
...truth in these allegations to cause alarm. Even Senator John Warner (R.-Va.), the ranking Republican on the committee, admitted that the FBI investigation into Tower's personal life, which found that he indeed had had drinking problems, cast doubt on the nominee's fitness for such a high-level and sensitive post...
...Reaganauts sometimes suspected him of ideological subversion. He in turn took a grandiose view of himself as an all-purpose antidote to the amateurism of some of his elders. "Every single thing that moved," he says, "I felt responsible for." His influence rose steadily, but so did the tension level. He still frets about "all those A words they used about me at the White House," such as arrogant and abrasive. The tag "Baker aide" also grated on the Darman ego, though not enough to keep him from becoming Baker's deputy at the Treasury Department...