Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minority leader Steven Pierce (R-Westfield) urged House members to reject the pleas to increase taxes by well over $1 billion over the next 18 months.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--Millions of Czechoslovakians ignored government pleas and joined a nationwide general strike yesterday in the largest and most dramatic demonstration for democracy and an end to Communist Party rule.
There is a very dangerous trend in this country, and in the world in general, to focus attention on problems of current popular interest, leaving other equally pressing but less publicized matters unaddressed. Saving our forests is certainly a very popular issue these days. Thousands have responded to increased media...
The signs said many things--about diversity, about individual rights, about politics. And they said many contradictory things, too-- "Catholics for Choice" signs rested alongside pleas for "Not the Church, Not the State, Women Must Control their Fate."
Partially because the candidates were Democrats, and partly because I am an eternal optimist, I took the job running this campaign. I produced seven coherent strategies for candidates to walk through key neighborhoods. I produced several plans for candidates to greet commuters at railroad stations. I made repeated pleas for...