Word: lightens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff in a last-ditch effort to save 7,000 jobs. British public expenditures in Northern Ireland, including the cost of security operations, average $3,200 a year for each of Ulster's 1.5 million inhabitants-a burden the government is anxious to lighten...
...marriage in three now fails. The state gives women some help in the form of child care and maternity leaves, but that is hardly enough to ease their dual burdens. One solution being advocated by an increasing number of women: part-time jobs, and plenty of them, to lighten the load and allow a little more breathing space for self-development...
Sergeant A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) is of Russian descent, and so, perhaps, comes by his chronic melancholia naturally. A recent divorce and - it is gradually revealed - his investigations of a particularly ugly series of child murders have done nothing to lighten his mood. He is in fact drinking his way into early retirement. Sergeant Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss) is a brisk, no-nonsense sort of woman, very proud of the fact that she has finally got her life perfectly organized. She keeps protesting her assignment as Valnikov's partner, though everyone (except perhaps Valnikov) under stands that...
...steel and blue glass of the Zion Baptist Church shines out from the grey of North Philadelphia. Its beige brick walls lighten the burned out buildings nearby, and a steel cross towers over bent and broken street lights. Zion attracts one of the largest congregations in the area, a district infamous for its high crime, poor housing and racial problems...