Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matters were more complicated for the Senate, whose members earn the same $89,500 salary as Representatives but rake in more from speaking fees. They were able to bury the plan by speaking up for reform: first they added a provision to prohibit retired congressional and Executive Branch employees from...
In the 1970s Latin America imported from the U.S. significant amounts of goods. In the 1980s that flow dropped as much as 80% in some areas, such as automobiles and tractors. The decrease was a fundamental cause of the great fiscal deficit of the U.S. The recovery of Latin America...
Above all, he wanted a Van Gogh. In 1987 he was the underbidder on Sunflowers, which fetched a record $39.9 million at Christie's in London. Then, as underbidder again, he just missed The Bridge at Trinquetaille, which sold for $20.2 million, also at Christie's, a few months later...
Just plain Lou Holtz. The name doesn't resonate like Knute Rockne or George Gipp, men around whom the legend of Notre Dame football has been molded. It doesn't sound larger than life, like the Four Horsemen or the Golden Boy, players who subsequently graced the annals of the...
Much the same humiliation befell NBC's network news operation after last month's California earthquake. KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, tried to transmit its footage of the disaster to NBC via satellite. But for more than an hour after the tremor, a glitch-prone NBC network was...