Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The factional jousting has intensified as the Dengists have sought to expand their reform program. Last October, the government extended to urban areas and to certain large industries a system of economic incentives that had been extremely successful in the countryside. In April, the party's General Secretary, Hu Yaobang...
The Democrats tried three times to bring their own bill to a vote. Just before the second and climactic attempt, Dole reclaimed a few G.O.P. waverers with a dramatic pledge. "If there is any slippage, if there is any turning back on the part of the President," Dole said, then...
To conservatives, he is a staunch moralist determined to see that the U.S. legal system protects the nation's traditional values. To progressives, he is an overreaching ideologue intent on using the Justice Department to dismantle two decades of legal advances. After just six months in office, Edwin Meese has...
"This is really Lenny's term," Duchay told his fellow councilors Tuesday night. "I pledge to uphold the dignity and the spirit with which he presided over this city."
Judy Collins, a mother who lives in Ventura County, Calif., is fighting mad. "They are teaching kids the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish," she says, of bilingual classes at San Cayetano Elementary School, which her daughter attends. "It's a United States flag," she adds indignantly. "They need to learn...