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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back to the state guest house after seeing Deng, the 58-year-old Soviet leader stopped his limousine and got out to shake hands with pedestrians, as he often does when visiting foreign capitals...
...does Jerry Williams, 65, a cantankerous veteran of more than 30 years of talk shows and a fixture at WRKO in Boston since 1981. A onetime liberal who now calls himself a populist, Williams often had Malcolm X as a guest during the '60s; today he spends much of his time inveighing against Governor Michael Dukakis. Before his role in the pay-raise controversy, Williams' most notable on-air campaign was against Massachusetts' mandatory seat-belt law: he helped gather 40,000 signatures on a petition calling for a referendum, which led to the law's repeal...
...fact remains that the majority of young American Samoans leave the island within a year of graduation, often to return disenchanted with both the mainland and their island homeland. And alcoholism is a perennial concern in a country where beer sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading...
Egypt has nowhere near enough money to pay for such an ambitious restoration program by itself. But it could generate significantly more revenues with one simple move: raising the laughably low entrance fees charged tourists. Tombs, for example, are often free, and visitors to the pyramids are charged only about $1.25. There are plans to double that fee, but it could be doubled again and still remain a bargain...
...allowing him to call for a balanced budget through eight consecutive years of failing to propose one. Her inspirational certainty is oblivious to popularity, allowing her to produce a government budget that's actually in large surplus. Fiscal policy is one area of governance where the wrong principles are often better than no principles at all. That is one good reason even a Reagan-Bush skeptic can admire...