Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expressive style of dress belies an air of self-containment. Lee is serious and taciturn, especially around strangers. No one will ever accuse him of ingratiating himself to reporters; a question that bores him is likely to be answered with a yawn and roll of his eyes. But press the right button, and he engages like an assault rifle, his words ricocheting off familiar targets. He rails against New York Mayor Ed Koch: "He's a racist. Hopefully my film will force a couple of votes, and Ed won't be around for long"; Walt Disney: "Snow White, Song...
...Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas (voting sites) at the last minute, allowing P.R.I. supporters to cast more than one ballot and barring P.R.D. officials from the casillas...
...Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming out of the hall where the Foreign Secretary delivered his speech, eight prominent local officials shouted, "Shame, shame...
Boston landlords who tolerate drug dealing on their property now "run the risk of making a charitable, non tax-deductible contribution" of that property to the government, U.S. Attorney Wayne A. Budd said at a press conference...
...official corruption was one of the calls of student-led demonstrators. They also demanded freedom of the press and a dialogue with government officials...