Word: newes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somewhere deep in the heart of New Jersey, Princeton men's basketball Coach Pete Carril will be snickering today when he opens his sports page and checks out the Harvard Brandeis result...
...recommendations. Even if the council balks, however, the commission has vowed to take its proposals to the voters as a ballot initiative, which may assure victory since Californians tend to approve such measures. Once enacted, Los Angeles' no-nonsense ethics rules could become the model for municipalities like New York City and Chicago, whose current guidelines are not as tough. Says Bruce Jennings, an associate at the Hastings Center, an ethics institute in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: "Cities will see the Los Angeles code as a bellwether for what the public expects of government officials...
...quality and variety in consumer goods. But with the winter of 1990 approaching, even the thriving joke mill may not be enough to help people forget the grinding deprivation. The accumulated ills of the Soviet economy have brought it to the brink of collapse. Foreign analysts, along with a new breed of frankly realistic Soviet economists, are ringing alarms about potential disaster...
...there were only two choices: hold the third national election in less than a year, or adopt the parliamentary course of last resort, a government of national unity. Last week Greece's three warring political groups swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that was . sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...
...uncomfortable partnership was made possible after Socialist leader Andreas Papandreou finally dropped his demand for electoral reforms that would have benefited the leftists. The former Prime Minister, 70, who has been charged with bribe taking and breach of faith, will have no formal position in the new government...