Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than that, in part because of Bennett's broadsides, teachers were considered the problem, which left them wary of the reformers. "The constant criticism is demoralizing," complains Albert Shanker, head of the American Federation of Teachers. "If the Secretary of Commerce disliked businessmen as much as Bennett dislikes teachers, the President would throw him out of the Cabinet...
Bush's strategy calls for limning his differences with Dukakis in terms that are as dramatic as possible -- in part because the two have similar stolid images but Dukakis is better on television. The Bush camp foresees a close election, with neither side conceding any significant bloc of voters. "We're going after every traditional democratic constituency, including labor, blacks, Hispanics, Jews and ethnics," vows Bush Spokesman Peter Teeley...
...palpable, however, between the two men who had been cohabiting, in French parlance, as government leaders for the past two years. During an exchange in which each candidate attempted to suggest that the other was soft on terrorism, Mitterrand flared up at Chirac, "This is not fury on my part, this is indignation." After the President charged the Premier with engineering the release of a proven terrorist in a deal with Tehran, Chirac angrily demanded that Mitterrand "look me in the eye" and repeat his allegations...
...portraits of Britain's George III and his consort Queen Charlotte went for $40,700. Still higher prices were expected this week in the sale of Warhol's modern and contemporary art acquisitions, although aside from several Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtensteins, Robert Rauschenbergs and the like, experts found this part of his collection far less impressive than might have been expected from the Prince...
With his prestige damaged by the murder of al-Wazir, Arafat evidently thought that making peace with Syria -- a leading exponent of the rejectionist, smash-Israel position -- would help him reaffirm his authority over the P.L.O. Assad, for his part, spotted an opportunity to assert his own championship of the intifadeh by embracing his old enemy. Yet as the pair were declaring their commitment to the rebellion, its true leadership remained where it has been all along: in the hands of the disaffected youths, middle- class shopkeepers, villagers and refugees in the occupied territories...