Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that scoop two weeks ago with claims that Frank and other Congressmen used the private House of Representatives gymnasium for sexual frolics. Though editor in chief Arnaud de Borchgrave bristles at the notion that the Times is turning to tabloid-style journalism to make its mark in the nation's capital, he slyly promises "more to come." Some Washingtonians may take that as a threat...
...Offer most-favored-nation status, allowing the U.S.S.R. the same trading arrangements provided to most industrial nations, including Hungary...
...Grant Poland most-favored-nation status, as well as encourage trade policies that would provide hard currency from increased exports rather than through excessive foreign borrowing...
With the nonsmoking, jogging, superenergized Presidents we get now, the nation could soon have six or seven healthy retired Chiefs roaming loose looking for things to improve. The consensus for the moment seems to be, as Mudd suggested, not to use them officially but to encourage them to follow their own interests, one hopes with taste and grace. We probably could not change them if we wanted to. It is worth noting that each of the four former Presidents has reverted to form with a vengeance. Reagan is back on the mashed-potato circuit (raised to a world-class level...
...stiff prison term once again drew attention to the glaring inequalities that often characterize sentencing decisions in the U.S. Despite efforts at reform, much of the nation's criminal sentencing system is still based on an idiosyncratic set of decisions made by crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that...