Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's budget was especially noteworthy, the former New Hampshire governor said, because it held the line on taxes while including several initiatives in the areas of education, child care, and other social program areas...
...Cambridge police respond quickly to a head-on automobile accident near Harvard Square at Garden St. Victims at the site show bumps and bruises, but all refuse medical treatment. Police question one driver, who appeared to have crossed the center line into the on-coming lane...
...like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious in doling out its moisture. God may be in his heaven, but for the nonce he is not a Republican and not at the end of Bush's overheated phone line...
...cultivated since taking power. Ways must be found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have...
...technological forerunner of the modern voice-messaging system was the common telephone-answering machine. But now, instead of talking to a simple tape recorder, people are conversing with a computer at the end of the line. At the heart of the new systems are special-purpose computer chips and software that convert human speech into bits of digital code. These digitized voices can then be stored on magnetic disks and retrieved in a flash, just like any other piece of computer data...