Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll call was anticlimactic. The packed galleries rang with cheers when Speaker Tip O'Neill announced the results: 245 to 176 in favor of deleting the $988 million for MX production. Fifty Republicans had opposed Reagan. Only 38 Democrats had taken his side...
...think that being in skating is one of the best experiences possible," Davison said. "I know people all over this country because of skating." As if to emphasize her point, the phone rang and Davison made plans to meet a skating friend who was in Boston for a competition...
...coliseum in Baltimore. That was about 20 years ago. Recalled Mr. Mack: "I said, 'Ernie, we better go to the hospital.' Water was pouring off him like a spigot. Ernie didn't have a mother or father, just brothers. If Ernie got into trouble, the phone rang here. But it didn't ring much. Ernie was good. He went into a coma at 2:30 in the morning. I stayed with him in the hospital two days, and then he just died...
...about two hours the average slipped, as it has every time the record has been threatened in the past. Then, like a long-distance runner sprinting those last yards toward the tape, the market surged ahead by 20 points in the final hour. When the closing bell rang amid the boisterous cheers of the floor traders, the Dow had climbed to an alltime high of 1065.49. The rise of 43.41 points on the day was also a new record, eclipsing the 38.81-point increase of last...
...television cliches. Remington Steele (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), on the face of it, hardly seems more promising. But on prolonged acquaintance, it shows every sign of being the brightest, freshest television caper since Columbo. Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) is an ambitious, adventure-hungry private eye whose phone never rang until she invented a partner who was, naturally, male (she got his name from marrying an electric shaver to a football team) and who would nominally solve all her cases. Clients flocked. Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist figured out Laura's canny fraud and threatened to expose...