Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooled Miami's immediate crisis. But more fundamental steps are necessary to help the city cope with the sudden inundation by Nicaraguan refugees while providing its alienated black citizenry with a greater stake in economic opportunity and political power. Unless action is taken soon, it may be only a matter of time before Miami's melting pot blows its lid again...
...band's name was an offshoot of a running dialogue in baby talk that Don carried on with his young son Anthony ("Anthony want pretzel?" "Not want."). According to Don, the name also "parallels the reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother...
Walsh and Wyche gave Miami and the rest of the crazed world an example. No matter how fierce the fight, there is room at the end for a little comfort, a little understanding--something, as the lights go out in Joe Robbie Stadium and we turn back to the real world, we should remember...
...obviously have some doubts about it, and that's why we have this Commission on the Public Service. The attitude toward federal service has certainly changed. It's a matter of psychology and prestige. A feeling that civil servants get hammered by the political process, beginning with the last couple of Presidents. And after a while, you have enough people swearing at you, and you don't think it's a very promising career. Salaries are of some importance, ((but)) when you're talking about the federal civil service, this process of layering the career people with more and more...
Most Japanese, convinced that most of the nations that count are behaving with propriety, have paid little attention to the foreign debates. As for Hirohito's war guilt, the matter received a round of fresh attention after the Emperor fell ill in September. When his death halted regular programming for two days, Japanese television devoted extensive coverage, including rarely seen war footage, to Hirohito's career. But Japan seemed disinclined to indulge in an orgy of self-examination. Viewers bored with the special shows flooded video-rental stores across the country. Many Japanese worry less about an old war than...