Word: padded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear that he wants Jackson nowhere near his race for mayor of Philadelphia. And organizers of the mammoth demonstration planned for later this month to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the March on Washington are petrified that Jackson will attempt to dominate the event and make it a launching pad for his candidacy. "They're trying to hem me in by keeping all the speeches to five minutes," Jackson complains. "That's the same thing they tried to do with Martin when they limited his speech to eight minutes." But as Jackson no doubt recalls, no one tried...
...experimenting." He may be more at peace now, but no one is suggesting that complete equanimity comes from perfect equilibrium. Thoroughly tanked one night in Berlin last year, Bowie extinguished a lit cigarette in a fan's ear and woke up the next afternoon in a hippie crash pad...
...savings and loan associations maintain in their defense that it may take several weeks to find out if a check is going to bounce. But critics point out that only 1% of all checks turn out to be no good. They charge that banks are really delaying payment to pad profits...
Princeton's win over Yale last week makes the Tigers clear favorites for the Ivy crown, but the Crimson will have its chance to down the Jerseyites at home on May 4. And today it will get a chance to pad its record in Providence against a weak (1-3 in the Ivies) Brown squad...
...satellites will be about $200 million. At present, the White House cannot estimate how much the Government would save by buying satellite data. To look into such questions, Congress plans to launch hearings, an action that could scrub the Administration's plan before it lifts off the pad...