Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority. If the Democrats can hold on to the four closely contested seats that currently have Democratic Senators -- California, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri -- they need to win just four of the nine or so Republican seats that are considered vulnerable. Yet Republicans have become renowned for their abilities down the stretch. The G.O.P. may be shaky this year, admits White House Political Adviser Mitch Daniels. But, he adds, "we've got the money, and we've got the President...
...most famous graffitist, so there is poetic -- and possibly political -- justice in the fact that Keith Haring would turn up writing on the world's most infamous wall. He was in West Berlin last week to dab a chain of his cartoon-like figures on a 100-yd. stretch of the Berlin Wall next to Checkpoint Charlie. Invited by the 13th of August Working Group, which operates the West German Wall Museum, Haring chose red, yellow and black tones because the colors are found in both countries' flags and symbolize the "coming together of the two sides, East and West...
...thrift industry. Besides the basic premiums of $780 million, the agency will assess the industry an additional $1 billion this year. In a more controversial vein, the agency rules governing accounting methods enable thrift institutions to appear stronger than they actually are. For example, S and Ls can stretch out the reporting of losses from mortgage sales. Moreover, 122 S and Ls now count among their assets so-called net-worth certificates, which are little more than Government IOUs that have been handed out by the FSLIC to dress up the balance sheets of troubled institutions. The rules helped Oklahoma...
...Curtis and Cann, this weekend could mark the beginning of another long stretch of sugar deprivation. According to their newest agreement, they both have to finish in the top 25 in order to regain the right to hit the lines at the ice cream...
...postseason was a time for little errors, big hits, great pitching, bad pitching and everything else that makes for interesting entertainment over a three-week stretch...