Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That encounter gave Jackson a glimpse of the plight of individuals in a police state, which became a major theme of his 1986 novel, Dzerzhinsky Square. As he left Moscow for Bonn, Jackson looked forward to reporting from "a country that works, a land of good wine and clean rest rooms and no wars." His successor, John Kohan, knows that world as well as the gritty reality of Soviet life. A Bonn bureau correspondent since 1985, Kohan reported from Moscow in 1980 and studied briefly at the University of Leningrad in the 1970s -- experience that should give him a good...
Although business leaders decried the Suffolk ruling as misguided, at least 30 states are contemplating similar measures. Says Jan Pierce, vice president of the Communications Workers of America: "We now have some badly needed momentum to pursue the same remedy in the rest of New York, the U.S. and Canada...
...sense of throwaway absurdity. A good deal of this absurdity appears in the dialogue's intentional inanities, cliches and fragmentary conversations. Some comes from the situation: when Mrs. Barker visits Mommy and Daddy, she removes her dress, as if it were a coat or a hat, and spends the rest of the play in her slip...
...preparing a massive mailing campaign with Rowan's face and his words plastered all over it. Their message, one assumes, is that if liberals like Rowan refuse to abide by the very gun control laws they advocate, the rest of us shouldn't either...
...this is not to downplay the potential threat that Rowan may have faced, nor to condone the delinquency, arrogance, bad judgment, and lack of respect which the teenager showed towards the Rowan family at 2 a.m. that Tuesday night. It's just to suggest that Rowan, like the rest of us, would have been far better off without his handgun...