Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Patrick Ewing [March 14] play basketball when he was in high school and was always impressed by his talent, poise and, above all, his sportsmanship. Thus it comes as a shock to read that blatant racism prevents many from recognizing Ewing's spectacular accomplishments at Georgetown. It is sad to realize that we are only marginally closer to racial tolerance than we were in the 1930s...
Japanese tax laws are fairly lenient. Doctors, for example, are allowed to deduct 72% of their incomes, and the first $13,000 invested in postal-savings accounts earn tax-free interest. But whenever the authorities start investigating, they make sad discoveries. An audit of 50 people who had registered new luxury cars worth $40,000 or more, for instance, found that eleven reported having no income at all. Of 116 cram schools that help Tokyo children pass their exams, 109 were discovered to be concealing income. And last week the national Tax Administration Agency said it had audited 24 prosperous...
...first propaganda salvo came from Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff. In a rare interview, Ogarkov bluntly described the consequences of any NATO missile buildup as "very sad, very bad." The Soviet Union, he told the New York Times, would have to respond to a NATO nuclear attack by striking back directly at the U.S. Declared Ogarkov: "If the U.S. would use these missiles in Europe against the Soviet Union, it is not logical to believe that we will retaliate only against targets inEurope...
...with 4,300 British servicemen stationed on the islands, the 1,800 Falklanders have become painfully aware that life will never again be as it was before the early morning of April 2, when 150 Argentines suddenly landed on a beach near Port Stanley. That is a sad realization for the "kelpers," as the natives proudly call themselves, after the seaweed that grows abundantly in their waters. Says Steve Whitely, 33, a veterinarian who emigrated from Scotland seven years ago: "Before the war, it was so quiet. You knew everybody. A lot of people never thought of the 'after...
...always find it sad when seemingly intelligent people find themselves hopelessly lost in the thickets of a complex problem. This seems to be where George Bisharat has left himself after his thoroughly confused letter (3 17 83) which attempted to respond to the often overly vehement, but generally sensible critiques of his misguided editorial...