Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign trail, Vice President George Bush's response to the housing crisis has been to ignore it. In answer to a question at the first presidential debate, Bush called for full funding of the McKinney Act and involvement of private benevolent organizations -- the "1,000 points of light" -- in communities that aid the homeless. Michael Dukakis has endorsed the recommendations of the National Housing Task Force and is committed to spending $3 billion of federal money to build homes, mostly for low-income people...
Quick. For one Belgian endive and a single point of light, read the following quotation and name that campaign...
...When you find the [funerary] inscriptions you make a latex imprint of the stone, and then you have to hold it up to the light or to a mirror to read, because it is backwards," Frye says. "The scrolls can tell you a lot about the customs and history of an area...
...tower room is the light which the Thacher Island Association was finally able to replace last April, after more than a half a century of darkness. Modern and newly painted, the light emphasized the corrosion of the railings and walkways...
Next year is the bicentennial for American lighthouses, and the Senate has declared August 7 "National Lighthouse Day." LPS will be sponsoring, in conjunction with the Coast Guard, a kick-off celebration at Maine's Portland Head Light. After that, it will be up to local groups to apply and spend the funds. If all goes well, the work of the Lighthouse Preservation Society and the Thacher Island Association, and other local groups, will come together so that, in the words of Senate Resolution 306, "these impressive structures, standing at land's end through two centuries, symbolizing safety, security, heroism...