Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already the Nicaraguan government has rolled back some of its reforms. Two weeks ago a popular visitation program with Costa Rica was suspended after 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to come back. (Last week Honduras suspended a similar program with Nicaragua but offered no explanation.) The Sandinistas then canceled scheduled talks with Miskito Indian rebels from eastern Nicaragua and confiscated opposition posters. Last week Ortega called off the Sandinistas' unilateral cease-fires in four war zones, plainly hoping to appease hard- liners within his own government, who oppose even indirect talks with the rebels. "The contras did not respect that cease...
...seven-piece band served up a bouncy rendition of the once popular tune Ain't No Stopping Us Now. In the steamy hotel ballroom, Democratic partisans lifted a rhythmic chant: "Mabus, Mabus, Mabus." On the podium, Mississippi's new Governor-elect let out a short celebratory whoop, then slowly declared, "Change has come." He repeated his campaign theme, "Mississippi will never be last again...
Members of the North Adams community fear that other, less popular projects for which the bill also provides funding could prevent it from passing or even from ever reaching the floor of the House...
Cocteau wove overt references to popular culture into his adaptation of the classic. Hints of thrillers, dime romances and detective films abound in the tale of the poet Orpheus's (Jim May) descent into Hades and return with his bride Eurydice (Magdalena Hernandez). Prascak, perhaps true to Cocteau's intentions, begins the play with a Madonna medley and transforms Death (Jennifer Lyn Bader) into a lovely Material Girl in white...
...should one program get a free pass? Because, with its 38 million beneficiaries, Social Security is one of the Federal Government's most popular and effective programs. It has vastly improved the lives of America's elderly: a 65-year-old worker who retires this year could receive the top Social Security payment of $789 a month, or 53% of the average national wage. Moreover, retirees regard those monthly checks as their due, a return on their payroll-tax contributions to the Social Security trust fund over the years. They see Social Security as an insurance rather than a welfare...