Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom line is to make access to affiliated housing fairer," said HRE president Kristen S. Demong. "That is our job, to make housing fairer...
Mills, a resident of Roslindale, left his Harvard post because of illness in June. He had worked for the University for 31 years, most recently acting as the Facilities Maintenance administration's front-line contact with its unions...
...common in China as saying hello, establishes that one of the guests has more than a nodding acquaintance with cremation. "Yeah," says a middle-aged man proudly, "I burn stiffs for a living." Only I smile. Everyone else knows what's coming, a recitation of the state's official line against using precious land for burials. "This is ridiculous," says the man, arcing a wad of spittle behind him, a small measure of civility indicating that China's famous antispitting campaign has done little more than improve the people's aim. "Zhou Enlai once said that China's greatest contribution...
Similarly, everyone I speak with who has attended a "re-education" session designed to promulgate the government's version of the Tiananmen tragedy professes to have listened stonily to the government's lies. Those forced to respond claim to have merely parroted the official line verbatim -- a transparent but unpunishable form of dissent...
...part, this attitude reflects Bush's deeply ingrained caution about doing "something dumb," as Baker put it last week. It also suits the hard-line doubters, like NSC deputy Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Vice President Dan Quayle, who think Gorbachev is only a short-timer and the Soviet Union will never really change...