Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of criticism loosed a fortnight ago when he described a newly appointed advisory commission by saying, "I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple." Watt reportedly drafted a resignation letter but did not send it. President Reagan told aides he thought Watt ran his department well, then announced that he would not ask him to resign. Instead, said Reagan, "I have accepted his apology...
...toward the prison's main gate. There the escaping inmates outnumbered the guards 4 to 1. A prison officer, who realized what was happening, swerved his car across the entrance. Another, James Ferris, 43, struggled with the prisoners who had streamed out of the van. Finally, the escapees ran off, leaving behind them Ferris, fatally stabbed, and six other guards, wounded...
...policymaking committee met in Washington and proposed to increase the total capital pool by $43 billion. The U.S. was asked to increase its share in the fund by $7.8 billion. With some heavy prodding from the Reagan Administration, the U.S. contribution bill passed the Senate in June. But it ran into trouble in the House, where members on both the right and the left joined forces to defeat it, largely on the grounds that it would bail out the U.S. banks. The measure finally squeaked through in early August with a six-vote majority...
...journalist and author who for half a century chronicled power and politics in Washington; in a nursing home in Princeton, N.J. Starting out in 1924 as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, the witty, diminutive (under 5 ft.) Drummond rose to executive editor and during the 1940s ran the paper's Washington bureau. There he covered eleven U.S. Presidents, largely in his thrice-weekly "State of the Nation" column, which was syndicated in 150 newspapers after he joined the New York Herald Tribune...
...spent the next 10 years in and out of prison until 1971, when he ran for president in South Korea and tallied 46 percent of the vote in the official results, a count which was said to have been fixed against...