Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beside their car. The next night Donald kept a vigil at the back-porch window. Then he dozed off. He was awakened at 1 a.m. to find their 1976 Chevy Impala in flames. Across the street four young men laughed and shouted, "Let the car burn. Niggers don't need to be in Melrose Park." One night as Stephanie set out for her cashier's job, several youths waved a rope and taunted her with threats of a lynching. Later a crude wooden cross was burned on the lawn...
Botha's promise to stop destabilizing neighboring states is one reward black nations can anticipate in return for their hospitality. South Africa also doles out large-scale development loans and credits, which all its neighbors need, and carries on semicovert trade with more than 40 other African countries...
Confidence in our financial markets has been an enormous national asset. It fueled our economy during the past 40 years. At a time when the need for domestic investment is very great, that confidence must be restored. And it can only be restored through swift and strong action by federal regulators, Congress and the White House...
...vote gap is becoming so serious that his newly energized campaign tactics may have little effect on the final numbers, barring a major Bush blunder. Now he must win nearly all the territory still up for grabs, plus some in which Bush leads, while protecting his present turf. Bush need add only one large state to the collection in which he is ahead...
...true spite and malice one must now turn to P.J. O'Rourke, 40, a baby boomer who seems to have teethed on brass knuckles and suckled on bile. He is also one of the funniest writers in America, or anywhere else he may go to satisfy his desperate need to extract humor from folly and chaos...