Word: state
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in decades, major protests involving tens of thousands of citizens also broke out in other cities, state-run Czechoslovak television said...
THIS realization first struck me when I told my sister, who's still in high school in Kentucky, that I was going to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game. Kentucky is a state that's big on sports, but the Harvard-Yale game?! She looked at me as if I'd lost my bearings, as if I'd suddenly announced that I'd voted for George Bush...
...Michael S. Dukakis will meet today with House and Senate leaders to discuss the state's financial crisis and present ideas about eliminating the $721 million dollar deficit...
Last week, the House approved a $368 million deficit reduction bill, which included state spending cuts and new, non-tax revenue initiatives. The House worked late into the night for a week adding amendments to the legislation and scrapping other provisions of the bill, including one that would have recovered $46 million from the soda and beer industry...
...harsh circumstances. In The Literary Life of Laban Goldman, an elderly Jew attends night school to improve his English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging a relaxation of New York State divorce laws. The Grocery Store evokes the atmosphere in which the author, the son of a grocer, grew up in Brooklyn...