Word: reminds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feisty and blunt. During her years on the commission, Hawkins was a tart-tongued, self-styled "fighter," though she preferred to describe herself as a "Maitland housewife." But as accustomed as they are to a good scrap, the two candidates have so far kept the gloves on. Both tirelessly remind voters of their records and promise to focus on pocketbook issues in the Senate. Standing in a drizzle in downtown St. Petersburg last week, Gunter told an elderly crowd that he would fight for improvements in Medicare and for banning all mandatory retirement. The next day, Hawkins, campaigning in brilliant...
...Domestic Policy--here is where you win. Libertarians believe in the deregulation of business, worshipping the free market as a sort of God. Remind your opponent that before regulation of business, industry did not exactly serve as an enlightened force in society. Upton Sinclair had plenty to write about when he turned his attention on the meat-packing industry; immigrants tended to die in apartment fires. If they want to argue that the present system is somehow different or if they start talking about how consumers can band together and start class action suits, then turn to Clark...
...suffered only infrequent, light air raids by Iraqi planes. When the sirens go off, people on the street carry on as if nothing has happened. Nobody dives for cover: they just look up into the sky, hoping to see a dogfight, even though the state radio and television constantly remind Tehran residents that they should take the air raid signals seriously. Most people have covered the window panes of their homes or apartments with thick black paper or tin foil, in order to keep the lights on during the blackout. The reason is not so much the fear...
...will force you to go to a party, or to attend a late night shots 'n' brews study break at the House, but they might come to your room and "remind you that you're doing a little too much power-tooling...you really get shit from a few guys if you don't come out and have fun," Dave admits, adding, "At times, the anti-intellectualism around here is undeniable...
...School can do little but wait. The school forwarded its employment information to the department as part of a routine University-wide investigation earlier this year. WEAL's leaders say they're prepared to wait "two or three months" for a verdict, though they pledged to remind investigators repeatedly to "hurry up" their study...