Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year both Labor and Likud hope to stitch together a majority without each other. Likud's most obvious partner is Tehiya, an extremist party that says what Prime Minister Shamir may only think. It now holds four seats and may win as many as seven. "We want annexation," declares Yuval Ne'eman, party leader and director of the Israeli Space Agency. At a minimum, Tehiya would insist that Shamir launch a new wave of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and promise in writing never to approach a negotiating table with a land deed in his back pocket...
Running Backs: The other Garrett, Judd, leads the ground game. Like Hinz, he is deceptively quick. Judd has rushed for 609 yards on 103 carries (a 5.9 average). His backfield partner, Dennis Heidt, doesn't pretend to have the skill of Judd Garrett. So Heidt just blocks, and blocks well...
...year after Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history, an unsettling question lingers: Could it happen again? Yes, answers a senior partner in the Lazard Freres investment banking firm and one of the most respected members of the financial community. The securities markets and the tax system must undergo fundamental reforms, he maintains. Otherwise, inadequate regulation, excessive speculation and overuse of credit could bring on a banking crisis and a stock collapse more damaging than the Crash...
...distinct flavor; Holroyd pinpoints which of Shaw's innumerable affairs he believes were consummated, and quotes bawdy letters in proof. Even more precisely evoked are Shaw's nonsexual passions for comrades in causes, from his schoolmate Matthew McNulty to his literary ally William Archer and his Fabian Society partner Sidney Webb. In a review, Shaw urged authors to shape their stories to suit their characters, rather than vice versa. Holroyd aptly allows each relationship to flower on the page without overtly fitting it into his larger architectural intent...
...That makes it a little bit easier," Sweeney said of his new partner in defense. "There wasn't a kid around who didn't say, `Wouldn't it be great to play with Ray Borque.' I was one of those Kids...