Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dawn broke under gray skies this morning, and a light rain fell on the Imperial Palace as priests performed a private Shinto rite inside that began 13 hours of ceremonies...
...ideological spectrum. He honored, with lip service at least, most of his kinder and gentler campaign promises, ranging from a pledge to halt offshore drilling in California to advocacy of extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine of a balanced-budget amendment...
...going to take more than a few rain showers like we had this week to solve this problem," DeVillars said yesterday at a news conference. "In fact, we could have more than a half dozen blizzards like we had in '78, and we'd still have a very worrisome situation...
Their male counterparts, joining Rain Man's Hoffman, included Gene Hackman for Mississippi Burning. He was joined by Oscar-nominee newcomers Tom Hanks for Big, Edward James Olmos for Stand and Deliver and veteran actor Max Von Sydow for Denmark's Pelle the Conqueror...
...addition to Levinson's nomination for Rain Man, best director nominees included Charles Crichton for A Fish Called Wanda, Martin Scorsese for the controversial The Last Temptation of Christ, Alan Parker for Mississippi Burning and Mike Nichols for Working Girl...