Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passing a new tax into law would be persuading the whole country to accept an additional burden that in the short run appears to help only the J.R. Ewing types. "Most Americans seem to have little sympathy or understanding for the plight of the U.S. oil industry," says Sam Nakagama, a Manhattan economic consultant. Thurow concurs: "If you impose a tax on New England to subsidize Texas, there would be a big fuss...
...rural cemetery outside the southern city of Kwangju, a chilly drizzle fell on the 100 identical gray tombstones. As a pair of women sobbed quietly, Kim Young Sam and Lee Min Woo, two of South Korea's foremost opposition leaders, entered the cemetery and solemnly laid a wreath beside the graves. The women's keening rose in a crescendo. For a moment, the visitors stood together in silence, recalling the hundreds killed by government troops in Kwangju after a student uprising six years...
...into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat on curbsides, some mounted rooftops, some climbed onto telephone booths or trees to hear the call for nonviolent resistance. "Let them back us, imprison us or put us under house arrest," declared Kim Young Sam. "This is the way Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. won victory." Throughout the four-hour rally, thousands of policemen looked on, unarmed and uninterfering...
...Wahoo Sam had 312 three-baggers in his career...
...Boston barroom series were casting a three-part season-closing episode involving politicians, they invited the Colorado Democrat to do an eight-line walk-on as himself. The cameo, which will air in May, calls for Hart to enter the bar just after Diane (Shelley Long) has finished chastising Sam (Ted Danson) for dropping politicians' names. The Senator, having met Sam the night before, shows up to return his coat and is gone 90 seconds later. "It helps my reputation," said Hart. "It'll probably ruin the show's." Viewers will record the final vote, but for the cast...