Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McKay noted that Meese finally filed an amended return on February 6 of this year, "shortly after the scheduling of the grand jury appearances for the Meese's accountants" in connection with McKay's criminal investigation of the matter...
...least, that is what Jackson would like everyone to think. In fact, he has been coming up empty-handed of late. The platform and rules concessions he has won from Michael Dukakis since June hardly matter very much. Jackson wanted to deliver the keynote speech or name an alternate. But Party Chairman Paul Kirk chose Texas Treasurer Ann Richards instead, causing Jackson to fume, quite rightly, that he at least deserved to be consulted before the choice was made...
Many of Shakespeare's plays, including Cymbeline, present history almost as fractured fairy tales. Does it matter? No, emphatically not, would be the response of the dottily romanticizing tour guide Lettice, played by Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage, Shaffer's rambling but zesty comedy. The first act takes place in a dreary stately home, adorned chiefly by her fanciful tales. The last rings in the movement against modern architecture, a campaign / that, thanks in part to the patronage of Prince Charles, enjoys far fiercer support in Britain than in the U.S. To Lettice, modernism scorns the past...
...Iraqi pipeline project was considered virtually moribund until Meese, at Wallach's insistence, made a telephone call to then National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. Says the report: "It was highly unusual for a Cabinet officer to request Mr. McFarlane to meet with the Cabinet officer's friend about a matter of commercial interest to the friend...
...lead to some form of searing national soul-searching. Whatever the provocation, whatever the perceived danger, whatever the rectitude of America's mission in the gulf, it was the Vincennes that fatally fired. The captain, who was only following proper procedures, may be free of personal fault. But no matter how understandable each of the Navy's actions, the fact remains that a string of American decisions created a situation that led to the shooting down of the Iranian airbus...