Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The most recent source of friction between the Sandinistas and the private sector has been the government's failure to set a specific date for the free elections it originally promised. When no timetable was announced at the anniversary celebration, leaders of the Private Enterprise Council (COSEP), among others...
The convention opened with an outpouring of oratory and patriotic pageantry. Pat Boone led the Pledge of Allegiance. Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker (whose living arrangements might not please pro-family delegates) sang the national anthem. Billy Graham gave the first evening's invocation. Then the speakers got down to...
His strong stand against government waste has a certain intuitive appeal, based on the popular notion that our government controls our everyday lives. But there are no assurances he will be able to isolate the inefficiency, and to keep his pledge, he might purge valuable social programs. His stands on...
To try to lure as many viewers as possible for 18 hours of TV time, the convention is overflowing with show business celebrities who will rival the politicians on the rostrum?a far cry from oldtime conventions where delegates lustily bargained, brawled and demonstrated to choose a nominee. This time...
The New York Congressman allegedly received, in addition, $50,000 in cash in exchange for making a similar pledge of immigration help. Both Congressmen are charged with trying to push their pet projects on the agents. Thompson allegedly asked them to make investments in his district that would benefit him...