Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...targeting certain rundown cities for redevelopment and committing sustained investments to these targets, the "financial and economic basketcase" that was urban Massachusetts recovered "beyond our wildest expectations," Dukakis said Saturday morning...
Later the same day, the schoolmaster handed out a report card not only on Amidon but on all the nation's elementary schools. The outspoken Secretary, who favors local initiative over guidance (or dollars) from Washington, released an 83-page rundown of what he believes should be the goals of primary-level curriculum and methods. Called First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America, Bennett's document awarded passing grades in most subjects, but with room for improvement...
...their home and the chaos we perceived was normalcy to them. I was frequently asked "why are there so few Americans here this summer?" My reply usually was "Have you read the International Herald Tribune lately?" Most looked back at me with incredulous faces until I gave them a rundown on past headlines... Terrorism in Paris, Khaddafy Making Secret Alliances, Be on Your Guard in Paris...
...days ago, when Wirthlin had settled in between the portraits of the Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin, he began his rundown in a soft voice, dropping figures into place to form a political mosaic. His small audience listened first in silent astonishment, then puzzlement. The news was just too good...
...People born late in the generation found that home prices were out of sight even before they entered the housing market. The tales were particularly grim in fashionable high-priced areas like Manhattan, where would-be yuppies desperate for affordable housing have even moved, VCRs and all, into rundown "single-room occupancy" hotels, sharing the bathroom down the hall with strangers...