Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point wasn't so much to win, but to raise consciousness [about the Middle East] in the community, to get it debated and discussed and to increase awareness of what has been going on in the occupied territories and how America's role...has only exacerbated the situation," Tarazi said...
...themselves sitting on the sidelines after their wives are elected. Dr. Arthur Kunin, a kidney specialist and the husband of Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, concedes that at first he was "not always happy waiting for my wife to come home." Kunin began to see that he had assumed the role his wife had held for the first 15 years of their marriage. "It's very important for a man to understand what being a high executive means to his wife," says Kunin. "I handled it by reversing our situation. Other men will have to find solutions that work for them...
Determined not to let the RJR Nabisco deal get away, Kravis demanded that Cohen come by KKR's Manhattan offices. Chewing out Cohen in front of Shearson aides, Kravis demanded a major role in the buyout, sputtering, "This is my franchise!" Cohen walked out, suggesting they talk again in a few days. But before that talk took place, Kravis delivered a thumping counterpunch: a $20.6 billion buyout bid for RJR Nabisco...
...covertly pass along the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices. In a technical sense, Dukakis' college-loan proposal is a wonder to behold: graduates would repay the money in the form of a small surcharge on their lifetime earnings, with the Government largely playing the role of collection agent...
...passion -- slicing the capital-gains tax to 15% -- would refute the argument behind tax reform: earned and unearned income should be treated equally. But then Bush never believed the free-market gospel that tax preferences distort the economy; one of the few times the Vice President took an activist role in the White House was to preserve oil-industry write-offs in the 1985 reform bill. And Bush promises oilmen new tax breaks if elected...