Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participate), more than half were lawyers and eight were judges; another quarter were large landowners. All of them had held public office, 42 as Congressmen and seven as Governors. And they were young. Madison, for example, was 36; Hamilton was 32. There were no women, of course, not to mention blacks or Indians. The new Republic that these men were to create was a republic in which slavery was still widely accepted and in which only about 10% of the inhabitants -- generally white male heads of households -- could vote...
...text makes clear who decides those interests. The Communist Party, whose members include 6.7% of the nation's 282 million people, is the "leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system." That mandate is so broad the document does not even mention the groups that really run the country: the 14-member Politburo and the 307-strong Central Committee...
...week at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, where Becker will try to become the third-youngest singles champion of the century. Already the first and second youngest ever to do it, he points out, "I was born there, you know." Two summers ago, unseeded and 17, not to mention "very slow and fat," Becker dispatched one eminent adult after another with a crashing service and a somersaulting exuberance. They all left the grounds, Henri Leconte after Tim Mayotte, predicting two things: that Becker would be a fine player one day and that he would lose in the next round...
...found in your discussion titled "What's Wrong" not indignation at the vacuum of values we have in the '80s but a shot at President Reagan. Materialism and corruption have been with all nations for a long time. Crooks have been punished and phonies exposed, but to mention names like Boesky and Bakker in the same breath with Meese and Reagan is exactly what is wrong with your story...
...mention that being honest is back in style. Unethical behavior is less tolerated today; hence many dubious activities that were once ignored are at last being confronted and corrected. Self-indulgence is not unique to "America's national character," as you imply. It is a characteristic of all people...