Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parliament to abstain, he would arrange to lose the vote. Schmidt could then call for new elections, which would have to be held within 60 days. But there was one catch. Schmidt would need Opposition Leader Kohl's support for new elections. Otherwise, the Christian Democrats could rush in while the Bundestag was still in session with a "constructive vote of no confidence" to elect Kohl as Chancellor of a new F.D.P.-Christian Democrat coalition. No new elections would need to be held until...
...former chief economic adviser to President Jimmy Carter, warned that the tax cut may be needed to give a weak economy some help. He explained, "Until you get a better sense of monetary policy and the likely strength of the recovery, Congress ought not to be in any big rush to raise taxes. You just cannot hit too hard on fiscal policy if you are still hitting hard on monetary policy...
...simply updated versions of the 1940s bobbysoxer. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria in White Plains, N. Y. (Minis and ruffles...
...alone in calling attention to sexual harassment and other problems. The University seems to be assuming that, encumbered by size and pacified by past gains, the campus women's movement has lost its militant zeal and become a silent (near)-majority. How else to explain University Hall's headlong rush to execute RUS, a move it wouldn't have dared to take just five years ago? Countless minority groups outside of Harvard have failed to capitalize on early successes and were stymied as their solidarity withered away. Black strugglers for equality, anti-war protestors and ardent feminists all had their...
...nice to you?" I asked. "Yes, she was nice," he said. "In Monaco, we love her." I said jokingly, "It's hard for us to think of her as a princess," trying to demonstrate a healthy American contempt for royalty. But I couldn't help enjoying the warm rush of pride that swept over me as I added. "She's just a girl from Philadelphia...