Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invested in him, he will have to display something more than the clubby conciliation that marked his previous career. The problems of crime, drugs, homelessness and substandard education cry out for solution or at least amelioration. The infrastructure is literally blowing up, with a seemingly endless series of water-main explosions. Especially worrying are Dinkins' close ties to powerful labor unions, some of which may clamor for pay increases just as the city grapples with a projected $1.3 billion budget deficit. Even some of Dinkins' backers have qualms about his ability to hold the unions in check. Says financier Felix...
...initial reforms, in any case, did not satisfy the opposition. "Dialogue is not the main course, it is just the appetizer," proclaimed Jens Reich, a molecular biologist and leader of New Forum, the major dissident organization. Founded only in September, it claims 200,000 adherents and has just been recognized by the government, which originally declared it illegal. The opposition pledged to keep up the pressure for a free press, free elections and a new constitution stripped of the clause granting the Communist Party a monopoly on power...
...play was a swell show; it had something for everyone. The main thing preventing it from being an equally swell movie is the fact that it is a movie. A film must offer us something a little more spectacular than half a dozen white chicks sitting around talking. Accordingly, Harling's adaptation hustles them out of the beauty shop and into the life of the town. Suddenly the people they talked about so amusingly behind their backs must be met face- to-face. The conflicts and confusions that sounded so hilarious in the recounting are spread out realistically. And reality...
They are as scrubbed up as the Bay City Rollers and as menacing as lap cats. So what could be their main "dislikes," as listed, fan-mag style, on their 1986 debut album? Jonathan Knight, 20, and Danny Wood, 20, say "prejudice"; Donnie Wahlberg, 20, mentions "war," and Joseph McIntyre, 17, nominates "poverty." Jordan Knight, 19, Jonathan's younger brother, plumps for "all basketball teams except the Celtics." There, then. You wouldn't mind if your daughter married a New Kid, unless, of course, you're a Lakers...
...silicon sensors programmed to control antilock brakes, monitor engine knock and trigger the release of safety air bags. Similar sensors are already employed in the space shuttle Discovery to measure cabin and hydraulic pressures and gauge performance at more than 250 separate points in the craft's main engines...