Word: strong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Straightforwardly, it comes back wheneverthere's a strong third party," says former SDPleader Shirley Williams, the acting director ofHarvard's Institute of Politics. "If you have aneffective third party, the `first-past-the-post'system is so unfair...
While the Bad Boys from Motown are back, looking like strong contenders to repeat, a healthy Larry Bird and a healthy Magic Johnson give the Celtics and Lakers the look--once again--of big, bad wolves. Here's a look at the four divisional races...
...addition, there is her sculpture, which has been part of an exhibit at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York City. Combining lead (which she loves for its malleability and its "seductive" quality) and broken safety glass, her pieces achieve her goal of being "beautiful but not pretty, strong and tough, yet not intimidating." They are very direct, in the same...
...palpable and sometimes painful memories of the Pretty Big One, as the locals are calling the recent quake, have lent a certain sharpness to the prospects of further shake-ups. Last week scientists were telling Californians that the state faces a 50% chance that another quake as strong as the recent one could happen "at any time" during the next 30 years. "And that means tomorrow," says Don Anderson, director of the seismological laboratory at the California Institute of Technology...
...upon us this fall, each an installment of a trilogy. Promised for 1990 are two more Nixon books by other serious writers, columnist Tom Wicker and political scientist Herbert Parmet. Despite the wide shelf of literature by and about the 37th President, the urge to discover him anew remains strong. It is not only because Nixon made headlines and history for three decades or that he was the sole President ejected between elections. He also continues to fascinate because it is difficult to come to terms with a leader who debased the presidency while skillfully, even bravely, steering...