Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy it is to % hoodwink our media elite," wrote Reed Irvine, chairman of the right-wing pressure group Accuracy in Media (AIM). The conservative weekly Human Events said MacDougall's revelations will no doubt "raise concerns about the ability of Marxist agents to penetrate the mainstream media." The Wall Street Journal issued a statement expressing its outrage. "It is troubling," said the Journal, "that any man who brags of having sought to push a personal, political agenda on unsuspecting editors and readers should be teaching journalism at a respected university...
...reassure financial markets that he is serious about attacking the deficit, Bush held two hour-long sessions with congressional leaders. His aides knew lawmakers would decline their offer of a full-fledged budget summit with the White House, but the feint did nothing to hurt the mood on Wall Street: the New York Stock Exchange surged all week, closing Friday 87.5 points higher than the week before. Moreover, after years of sleepy meetings with Ronald Reagan, the Congressmen could barely contain their enthusiasm for the more engaged Bush. Many seemed astonished that a President could think and talk extemporaneously...
...firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold on the black market to drug dealers, street gangs and assorted thugs in Washington and New York City...
...global temperatures suggest that the warming trend has already begun and will soon become widely apparent. Warns the NASA scientist: "Our model predicts that by the middle of the 1990s, the greenhouse effect should be pretty clear not only to scientists, but also to the man in the street...
PRESS: I Was a Socialist for the Wall Street Journal...