Word: permanente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Washington, the Democratic majority on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence blocked yet another Administration proposal to provide $28 million of U.S. military assistance in the next fiscal year for the 15,000 contras battling the Managua regime. Efforts by Republican committee members to revive the funding for...
After Dallas, Kennedy was translated into a sudden myth, a permanent luminescence. It is a profitless irony that the drama of his death spared him the long, fading afterlife of the ex-powerful.
Two decades ago, when America's inner cities were ravaged by riots, public interest was riveted on joblessness as a prime problem of the black community. But after the cities cooled down, attention waned, even though unemployment remains high. Since blacks have gained more political power in major cities, the...
The Stranglers, to their credit, won't give in to the requisite dance-floor demands of public success; even the grandes artistes Talking Heads couldn't reach the really big time--permanent Top--40 success--until they meshed funk rhythm with their native melodies.
But there were certainly strong hints that things had changed. The ships' store was torn down, reduced to bare ruined choirs in a matter of days. The loudspeaker system that once called residents to the phone was dismantled. Within a week, Steve Coe had been fired, with the explanation that...