Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parliament is always tinged with politics, a time when the government's Chancellor of the Exchequer tries to sweeten his economic plan for the coming year with at least a spoonful of sugar. But last week, when Chancellor Nigel Lawson arrived at the House of Commons with his 25-page budget, he brought along an entire sugar bowl. In a somber, 59-minute speech, Lawson cut taxes, pared government borrowing and placed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in an excellent position to call national elections as early as June...
...beginning, America was a blank page, in Tocqueville's phrase: no history, all potential. Today America, the oldest continuous political system in the world, has a full page of history and heavy debts to pay. The campaign of 1988 could be one of the more interesting and important in recent history. There is no incumbent; neither party has an obvious heir apparent. The nation will perform the very American act of reimagining itself...
...Harvard fans in the Motor City this weekend need not worry: the band--30 pieces strong--will be there. "I think we will be a unifying force in Detroit," says Band Manager Liz Page. "We can be a bridge between the fans who are already out there and the fans who have come from Harvard. We can pull them together with Harvard music and spirit...
...easy," I said. "I got lotteried out of my Religion seminar with God, so I had to take a Physics course with some Nobel Laureate guy named Rubbia. The material wasn't so bad, but he held two classes in the middle of reading period and assigned a 10-page paper due right in the middle of Mardi Gras...
...proxy statements, as many as 60 Wall Streeters will be accused in connection with the Boesky scandal alone. Rumors about possible charges against the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, which had close ties to Boesky, have become so vexing to the company that it has begun taking out two-page newspaper ads listing a roster of 238 contented clients...