Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London Times called it a "fine old imperial sight." As the royal yacht Britannia steamed into Victoria Harbor last week, a shore battery fired a 21- gun salute. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip listened as the Royal Hong Kong Police Band struck up Memory. Fitting, that: it was likely to be the Queen's final visit to Hong Kong while it is a British colony...
...term elections are coming up and the Republican Party's prospects for maintaining control of the Senate are not commensurate with Reagan's personal popularity. The GOP has already tried to buy off the nation's farmers with a new $50 billion boondoggle. Now the Administration wants to shore up the President's and the party's image as arms controllers...
...AUSTRALIAN government the timing of the American decision could not have been worse. The Labor Party under Prime Minister Bob Hawke had already begun to suffer an alarming drop in popularity, most notably because of a crisis in foreign exchange. Emergency measures had to be enacted to shore up the plummetting Australian dollar. Treasurer Paul Keating voiced his fear that Australia was heading for "banana republic" status. And so, in light of looming economic disaster, the government introduced the so-called "horror budget" which called for massive federal cutbacks...
...decision also seemed to be aimed at improving relations with the West. The regime's apparent hope is a lifting of U.S. economic sanctions and the securing of urgently needed loans and credits to shore up the sagging economy. In addition, the government's action appeared to represent a victory for Jaruzelski over hard-liners within the Polish Communist Party...
...classes of schools and even of school systems is a new idea, one that appears to be gaining support around the country. Responding in part to sharp cutbacks in federal funding for student aid, benefactors from Dallas to Chicago, from Oakland to New York City, are pitching in to shore up troubled public- school systems...