Word: seated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Rep. and City Councillor Saundra Graham, conceding her State House seat to truant officer Alvin E. Thompson after a November sticker campaign...
...council discloses that its spring concert, featuring Suzanne Vega, lost $20,000 because it failed to sell out 3000-seat Bright Arena. Council officials blame the ROTC crisis for cutting short advertising...
...which came to pass, over three days of debate. The 2,250-seat Congress, two-thirds of whose delegates were freely elected, constitutes what is arguably the most democratic governmental institution in more than seven decades of Soviet rule. But the assembly also revealed a profound regard for the status quo in carrying out one of its principal jobs: the election of 542 members of the Supreme Soviet, which will serve as the country's working legislature. In voting results announced Saturday, most anti-establishment candidates, some of whom had defeated high-ranking Communist Party members to reach the Congress...
...radio, an unmarked white Chrysler rips out of a gravel driveway. From other directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...
...world is exactly Salman Rushdie's Indian characters passively seat- belted in their flight from Bombay to London, then blown apart by a random, idiot bomb and soon seen pinwheeling down to a soft landing off the English coast -- the England where Kipling comes home to roost and the empire will implode and intermingle...