Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right National Front, won an astonishing 14.4 percent of the vote in the first round. He said in a bitter statement yesterday that the traditional right was "the stupidest right in the world...
...most explosive issue of the campaign focuses on France's immigrant population, some 4 million people, many of them North Africans. Resentment of their claims on social and employment resources has been fanned, frequently with racial undertones, by Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front. Chirac and Barre, either of whom would need Le Pen's expected 11% of next week's vote to go their way in the second round, are handling the matter with caution, calling for immigration reforms based on the recent recommendations of a high-level commission. Mitterrand favors...
...picture shifts to a large lecture hall on a Tuesday morning. The professor drones on about the reification of post-Kantian theories of kitsch. A student sinks back in his seat. The Globe sports section has replaced notetaking. His pen traces patterns around the box scores. The numbers recall the sensational double play in the bottom of the fifth of last night's Padres-Mariners game...
...middle of game preparations, Kennedy--or T.K., as she is more widely known--takes out a roll of athletic tape and a pen and writes down a final score...
...forthcoming -- but the process is likely to take at least three years. Chances are, though, that if Oliver North and his co-defendants in the Iranscam scandal receive pardons, the deal will not happen quite that way. President Reagan will probably grant their petitions with the stroke of a pen, without a three-year wait and perhaps even without a trial...