Word: ouring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. I fully accept that this parliament is the supreme body of state power. There is no other body in this country that can make major decisions on domestic and foreign policy. Our military, by the way, especially the command, is very disciplined and brought up in a spirit of...
Within two months the Cutlips had sold their house and moved with their four children to Seattle, with no job and few friends, but with a determination to find a less stressful life. Today the family is settled in the wooded suburb of Issaquah in a cedar split-level that...
Antigrowth instincts have stiffened, especially around Seattle, where the citizenry has been increasingly inclined to put environmental conservatism first. Last May, for example, voters overwhelmingly approved new restrictions limiting the height of future downtown skyscrapers to 450 ft. "The California rush is actually useful in crystallizing the debate over our...
Emmett Watson, a curmudgeonly columnist for the Seattle Times, has conducted an anti-California crusade for years. MOUNT THE RAMPARTS! FIGHT CALIFORNICATION! exhorts the headline of a recent Watson tirade. The columnist is the founder of Lesser Seattle, an antibooster organization that seeks to "keep the bastards out" by exaggerating...
How long will the California rush continue? Real estate brokers expect the trend to intensify further before it subsides. A few immigrants, however -- just a few -- are turning around. Consumer finance representative Terry Maxwell, 35, and her husband John, 33, a wine-company salesman, brought their year-old child to...