Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gain genuine democratic development desired by all citizens," Lee added, "Should it become impossible to restore law-and-order through ((self-restraint)) alone, it would be inevitable for the government to make an extraordinary decision." He did not elaborate, nor did he need to. An "extraordinary decision" could only mean emergency government powers, perhaps even martial...
...surface, not much has changed. Familiar American offerings, from Coca-Cola to cars made with General Motors parts, are still available, sold now by the firms that bought former subsidiaries of U.S. companies. Early opponents of divestiture were concerned that the departures of American firms would mean a dramatic loss of jobs for black workers, but that fear has so far $ proved unjustified. However, advocates of divestiture who hoped that the corporate walkouts would spur the government to reform, even slightly, its policy of apartheid have been sorely disappointed...
...before going on unemployment, the Norwegian bachelor farmers have made their final appearance at the Chatterbox Cafe, and Keillor has carried on shamelessly. "I'm going away, for to stay a little while," he has sung, "but I'm coming back, if I go ten thousand miles." Does he mean it? The ON THE AIR sign turns dark, and Keillor bows himself offstage. Goodbye, love...
...story from coarse Daryl's point of view rather than, as Updike did, from the ironic women's. This is not a movie of compound-complex sentences and nuances. But it is a damned entertaining one, with a textbook display of camerabatics -- if textbooks were comic books with a mean streak...
...able to define perfectly the 'invasion of privacy' in presidential politics," wrote Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman, "but I know it when I see it. This is it." In the Times's defense, Whitney argues that reporting is "one big fishing expedition. That doesn't mean we print everything we find...