Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual, Barry's response has been weak. He accused the "white" media, i.e. The Washington Post, of harassing him. Barry said he would investigate the matter and offered no explanation of his presence in the hotel room...
There is also a growing feeling that Barry no longer governs the city. The Post closely followed the mayor for a week and found a record of missed appointments, meetings and ceremonies planned months in advance. The paper also found that Barry was out of the city for 108 days last fiscal year, including a visit to the Virgin Islands. Add this to Barry's notorious reputation for excessive partying and the results are unpleasant, to say the least...
...after World War II to around 16 percent today. But the reduction of America's overwhelming predominance in the world economy was a result that America deliberately sought, on the grounds that an economically secure Western Europe and Japan were crucial to containing communism and providing for a stable post-war world, thereby enhancing America's international position in the long run. To cite the economic rehabilitation of Western Europe and Japan through the Marshall Plan and demilitarization as causes of the United States's decline, two of the major successes of post-war American foreign policy, seems highly disingenuous...
...digger in pursuit of her hubby's heavyweight fortune, Felder told the press that Robin sought no money from the divorce. But less than a month later, he filed a $125 million libel suit against Tyson on her behalf. The reason? The champ was quoted in the New York Post lambasting the actress and her mother as, among other things, "the slime of the slime." Says Felder, with some glee: "This is the highest- profile divorce ever. We're getting hate mail...
...have one potential advantage: they could simply outlast Carson. After 26 years behind the desk, the NBC veteran may be nearing retirement, though neither he nor NBC will comment on whether he expects to continue beyond September. Even with substitute host Jay Leno in place as heir apparent, the post-Carson field is wide open...