Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jill made the Virginia Woolf tattoo on her bicep dance, brushed her crew cut and said, "I thought you were planning to get seriously into writing this term, Betty...
...withdraw a cherished plan to impose a sales tax. The controversial measure was part of a broad effort to stimulate the economy by reforming the tax system. The setback placed the Prime Minister in desperate need of a foreign policy triumph to help keep him in office until his term ends in October...
...largest chunk of the council's operating budget goes towards running a three-room office in Canaday Hall. Curiously, the better part of that chunk goes toward former founding council member and two-term chairman Brian R. Melendez...
...members of the P.L.O.'s executive committee, who is wanted by the U.S. and Italy for his role in the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. At week's end after Abbas had resigned from the policymaking body to mollify moderates, he was re-elected to another term...
...sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens who can prove they have been permanent residents in the U.S. since before Jan. 1, 1982, will be granted temporary resident status. After 18 months they are eligible to become permanent residents -- and eventually U.S. citizens. Because...