Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chief Justice Ayatollah Reza Laza Meza: Haj, you're a disgrace to your religion! I order you to read from the Koran continuously for 74 hours while soaking in a vat of boiling cat intestine...
...will have a surfeit of needs but very little money. Bush's campaign goals include more funds for Head Start and $500 million for "merit schools" -- dollars that will be hard to find, given the pressures of the budget deficit. Balancing books may be difficult, but getting students to read them is Cavazos' main concern. "We've heard a lot about budget and trade deficits," he says. "We've got one that's equally dangerous -- the education deficit...
...Baryshnikov's enduring commitment has been to the American Ballet Theatre. After several years of critical condescension -- and he does read and ! react to adverse reviews -- he is finally getting some respect for having greatly improved the level of performance, relying less on imported etoiles and instead nurturing young talent within the troupe...
...directors -- and much of the public as well -- were soon shocked to read news accounts reporting that Johnson's plan would enrich him and seven of his top executives beyond the dreams of Midas. In exchange for $20 million they would put up for an 8.5% stake in the new company, Johnson and the seven other executives would see the value of their investment jump to $200 million when the sale was completed. That was only the beginning. By doing some simple arithmetic, critics of the plan calculated that the eight men's holdings, which were scheduled to grow...
...industry at an estimated cost of $50 billion, and allocate an additional $9 billion to $13 billion for programs aimed at underprivileged children. Most important, the former Presidents insisted, new taxes will be required to pay for these needed initiatives. Since Bush has refused to back away from his "read-my-lips, no-new-taxes" pledge, that idea surely fell on deaf ears...