Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation cries out for at least one of the party's heavyweights to join the festivities. "That's the most likely next big event," says Pollster Stanley Greenberg. "An established national figure who comes in reluctantly, someone who stands apart from the rush of present candidates, would change the game." Cuomo or New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley would attract instant attention, as would Georgia Senator Sam Nunn...
...giving away nothing. Labor intends to . attack the government's record on unemployment -- which has doubled since Thatcher took office in 1979 -- and propose increased public spending. It also plans to portray the Tories as insensitive and uncaring in health, education and housing policies. The Alliance strategy is to present the centrist alternative: more liberal than the Tories on social issues but more conservative than Labor on foreign and defense policy. Recent by-election victories have shown increasing receptivity to the Alliance as an alternative to the two main parties. For their part, the Conservatives will run on their record...
Frank Page is the upstanding young editor who narrates the novel, an account of the workings of Belles Lettres from its beginnings as the plaything of the rich and cultivated Winifred Buckram to its present as a property of Protean Publications, whose owner, Cyrus Tooling, is less cultivated. His response to the journal's list of 25 important American writers: "Who the f is Harold Brodkey? And where the f is Herman Wouk...
...remission, has gradually turned over day-to-day control to Glass, 51, and Shewmaker, 49, one of whom is likely to become the next chief executive. The titular position of chairman may go to the founder's eldest son, S. Robson Walton, 42, who is at present one of the company's vice chairmen. But Mr. Sam shows no signs of giving up his trademark store visits. For some time to come, Wal-Mart employees will have to be on the lookout for the gray-haired gentleman who loves to exclaim, "Give...
...became a journalist in Paris. He would not speak out about the unspeakable for ten years. When that self-imposed vow of silence ended, he devoted his life to writing and talking, with rare eloquence and power, about the despair of the past and the concerns of the present. Now a U.S. citizen, Wiesel, 56, has written some 30 books and is widely acknowledged, in the words of the Nobel committee chairman, as a "messenger to mankind." Later this month he will testify in the case of The State of France v. Klaus Barbie...