Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Others saw the ethics package as an important first step. The reforms, said Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer, established the principle "that public officials should be paid by the public and not by private interests." The President too chose to focus on the positive aspects of the deal. In his carefully crafted message of support, Bush told Congress, "I fully support the reforms you are prepared to bring before the House of Representatives this week...
...exodus of thousands of well-trained plumbers, bus drivers and doctors has only added to the misery, shutting down entire assembly lines, paralyzing health care, even forcing policemen to drive public buses. Says Sylko Roehle, 17, a machinist: "We saw what Poland and Hungary were doing; we heard Gorbachev. Everyone felt, Why are we being left behind...
According to Johnson, the officer who responded to the call said he saw a group of four white men running down Linden St. shortly after the robbery occurred, but before arriving at the scene of the attack. He said that police believed the four were responsible for the attack...
Stieglitz finally married his mistress in 1924. But several years later, he became infatuated with a younger woman. A series of domestic and professional skirmishes followed; O'Keeffe suffered a breakdown and stopped painting. It was two years before she saw a way out: "If I can keep my courage and leave Stieglitz," she told a friend, "I plan to go West...
...smaller became a matter of military and economic survival. Spurred by the cold war and the space race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony's $29.95 transistor radio to U.S. retailers in 1955 and was repeatedly asked, as he made the rounds of New York City's electronics outlets...