Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voke thus positioned the House leadership on the side of what many House members believe is the prevailing popular sentiment against any tax increase. The House budget plan presents members with a clear alternative to the higher spending and $604 million tax increase advocated by Dukakis...
...mustered the energy to propose hiring more police officers to work in particularly dangerous neighborhoods. He has no urban renewal agenda. George Bush, meanwhile, is still in the shadow of Ronald "drugs are out of style in the U.S." Reagan, as evidenced by his budget's bias towards supply-side drug intervention...
...upped its lead to 3-0 less than a minute into the second period when senior Betsy Aldrich took advantage of a tactical error by Harvard Tri-Captain and goalie Jen White. Instead of falling on the puck after a shot attempt, White quickly flicked it out to the side without seeing Aldrich, who proceeded to knock it back...
BECAUSE Billy is not fully a member of the gang, he makes an excellent narrator. He has chosen his side and is privy to information, but he retains enough of his independence to report believably. Readers get more than a taste of depravity--murder, violence and illicit sex are painstakingly described, but thanks to Bathgate, they never grow callous. The readers' initial premise is not inverted...
...encounter was as historic as the setting. In the glittering white ballroom of the 17th century Palace of the Council of Ministers, 57 people took seats at a massive table built especially for the occasion. Ranged around one side were negotiators for Poland's Communist government, led by the Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. On the other hunched the portly, moustached figure of Lech Walesa at the head of a 25-member team from the banned Solidarity trade union and other opposition groups...