Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of those meetings, a new program geared toward providing information and support for Mission Hill's mothers and pregnant women opened its doors yesterday...
...that is highly unlikely. Right now it looks like the Democrats will hold off the challenges to their incumbents, beat Hecht and Karnes and at least split the open seats. This result will still increase the Democratic majority in the Senate to 56-44, a margin which will make life much more difficult for a President Bush and his agenda than it was for President Reagan...
Although only tenuous evidence can be presented that repealing the prevailing wage would result in lower taxes, repeal advocates have continually stressed this as a major campaign issue. As Mark Erlich of the Committee for Quality of Life said, "the phrase `tax savings' is a code word that people accept on faith. Our feeling is that we need to educate the public on a fairly complicated issue. In an age where simplistic arguments are winning, it is gratifying to have won so much support for this issue...
...Employer, [Harvard], argues that, even if no particular element of the Union's strategy independently warrants setting aside the election, the pattern of misconduct requires that result. To my knowledge no case has been cited whereby that policy has been invoked [where there has not been evidence] of coercion, misstatements, bribery, violence, or vandalism...
...have been blamed for triggering the recent riots that have killed as many as 400 people. Mexico, which relies on oil for 40% of its total export income, expects that oil revenues will fall below $6 billion this year, compared with exports worth $7.8 billion in 1987. As a result, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid has announced $220 million in new cuts in the government's $90 billion budget. The price slump is also likely to intensify Mexican demands for another renegotiation of the country's $104 billion foreign debt...