Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efficiency by Perkins to the crowd of reporters that provides a constant heckling chorus. The plot is imaginative but plausible, just a half- step beyond today's headlines. When the power workers' union goes on strike to protest Perkins' economic plans, soccer stadiums are plunged into darkness and the nation into harsh second thoughts about the new regime. Later, to dramatize his views on disarmament, Perkins arranges to have a nuclear weapon dismantled on live TV. "I once tried middle of the road," he tells an aide. "I was knocked down by traffic in both directions...
This is a tale of two cities that occupy one place but exist in two different worlds. One is Washington, the nation's capital, an enclave of sparkling white marble monuments and Government offices. The other is the District of Columbia, an overwhelmingly black city of 629,000, with an appalling crime rate, disintegrating schools and declining municipal services. That other Washington rarely steals the spotlight from the official one, but the scandal surrounding Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. these days has focused belated attention on its mounting travails...
...short, America as a nation represents man's attempt to live together peacefully. While we should admire the men who risked their lives so that our nation could survive, we should regret that such events as World War II ever happened and try to learn their lessons, not revel in their glories...
...about simply saying, "The nation's top-ranked Harvard men's squash team crushed Williams, 9-0, Wednesday in front of 60 spectators at Hemenway Gymnasium...
Having made such suggestions in his last chance to address the nation, Reagan showed us that he still lives in a past, a past in which the realities of war made it necessary for America to present a united and undivided front to the rest of the world. But, in case he hasn't noticed, someone ought to tell the President that the battle has been fought and the war has been...