Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of the Postal Service's revenues still comes from old-fashioned mail. Despite the computer age and talk about electronic messages doing away with letters, more, not less, mail is being sent. Christmas volume last year ran 800 million pieces ahead of the 1982 rate. U.S. banks and brokers had to send out millions of Internal Revenue Service W-9 forms this year to comply with new requirements on reporting interest income. The Postal Service earned $100 million just on those bank mailings alone...
...Springfield speech, he renewed his attack on Mondale as the candidate of "the old arrangements and special-interest agenda that have locked up our party and this nation for too long." During the same speech in which he apologized to Mondale for his remarks about the ads that never ran, Hart implied that the former Vice President nonetheless is a liar. Accusing Mondale of falsely questioning his commitment to arms control and civil rights, Hart declared, "The fundamental issue still remains, and that is whether a candidate can purposely and consciously continue to say things that he knows...
From the beginning of his campaign, Jesse Jackson had counted on the primaries below the Mason-Dixon line to show that he could entice historically stay-at-home blacks to the voting booth. Last week in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, Jackson did just that. "Blacks just ran to the polls," said Tyrone Brooks, Jackson's campaign director in Georgia...
...Christian factions met in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a round of reconciliation talks last week, but the only power broker on the premises was Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. In fact, the Lebanese representatives wryly referred to Khaddam as "the high commissioner," an allusion to the French official who ran Lebanon under a League of Nations mandate before the country gained independence...
...knew it wasn't the cat because he was outside (Indiana Jones was another one of my charges; I had the honor of feeding him every morning and of forgetting to empty his litter box, until he began to find other locales for his affairs). Maggie and I ran next door where one of my former babysitting comrades was house sitting. While looking through her windows at my house, I thought I saw shadows in the window and immediately called the police. Before the police came, I realized the thump had been a shade from the master bedroom which...