Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When 10 Law School students were given official slaps on the wrist for their participation in an anti-apartheid sit-in last April, campus activists breathed a sigh of relief. The sit-in had been orderly, and the school's Administrative Board had quietly and expeditiously levied the mildest form of discipline...
...next day a young man wearing a business suit and carrying a briefcase strode past the gate guard, waved and heaved a silent sigh. He had made it! "It was my father's briefcase," Spielberg says. "There was nothing in it but a sandwich and two candy bars. So every day that summer I went in my suit and hung out with directors and writers and editors and dubbers. I found an office that wasn't being used, and became a squatter. I went to a camera store, bought some plastic name titles and put my name in the building...
Advocates of nuclear arms control heaved a collective sigh of relief last week. Reagan Administration officials announced that the U.S. would continue to adhere to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the 1970s, although the agreements had lapsed. The accords, known as SALT II, were never ratified by , Congress, but the two superpowers have more or less abided by them. Conservatives in Congress made a strenuous attempt to persuade President Reagan to abrogate the agreements on the ground that the Soviets have flagrantly cheated on SALT. In fact, the record of Soviet compliance is more ambiguous than the accusations suggest...
While high-tech executives are jubilant and oilmen sigh with relief, builders and real estate operators are aghast. The tax changes specifically targeted at their industry, such as the extension of the "at-risk" rule for shelters and new guidelines on what profits qualify for capital-gains treatment, are just the start of their troubles. Like other businesses, they will get less generous deductions for depreciation, and that is an especially important item for them, since their business consists so heavily of dealings in those highly depreciable properties, buildings. Adding up all the ways in which realty taxes will...
...certainly didn't believe he intended to harm his wife, or you wouldn't have associated with him, isn't that true?" challenged Chief Defense Attorney Thomas Puccio. Replied Isles, with a sigh: "I'm ashamed to say it's not true...