Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To be sure, much of what Reagan outlined could still be changed within Administration councils, although the President took the unusual step of warning Cabinet members that he had personally reviewed the document virtually line by line with its author, Budget Director David Stockman, and saw little need for the...
After more than a year of pleas, threats, deadlines and back-room bargaining with the Massachusetts state legislature, Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity decided enough was enough. Last week the judge took drastic steps to force the legislature to clean up polluted, malodorous Boston Harbor or risk ending a $500...
During the protest, police arrested about 160 people, including two Roman Catholic priests and a deacon. The clerics spent a night in jail before being released in response to pleas from Santiago Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín. A British subject who worked as the United Press International correspondent...
Students and professors, needless to say, are frustrated. Because of the strike, teachers cannot conduct research in a reasonable environment; students cannot learn and are deprived of staples of social life such as their dining halls. Whatever their views of the union, they all want a settlement. But Yale's...
Did the last-minute campaign pleas matter? In fact, did the entire campaign make any difference? In hindsight, the result seemed almost preordained. The election was dominated, first to last, by four Ps: Prosperity, Peace, Patriotism and Personality. An incumbent running at a time of low inflation, rising incomes and...