Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans and Democrats are both resorting to wait-till-next-year tactics. But if the stock market keeps plunging, interest rates start rising, inflation ticks up some more and the economy begins weakening, the President and Congress may have to try another approach. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Bernard Baumohl and David Beckwith/Washington
...drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the '40s and '50s she ran clubs in Mexico City and Rome, then quit in 1961, saying, "I'm tired, honey, tired of staying up till dawn every...
Everyone serves in the Israeli army, though only men till the combat positions. This his psychological and political effects, Ben-Dori says, "Young-sters are full of ideas. The army makes them grown-up, deep-thinking." Also, the army is a cultural common dedominator in a country of immigrants. And since what the government decides may determine whether one or one's children will die or live in peace, Israelis are more concerned with and feel a more personal stake in politics than we do here...
Only a short time ago, such applause would have been unthinkable. When Deukmejian took office in January of 1983, the recession had eaten away what little remained in the till; earlier, billions in state revenues had been tapped to bail out local governments in the wake of Proposition 13, the 1978 voter initiative that drastically slashed property taxes. Deukmejian faced a staggering $1.5 billion deficit, an unemployment rate of 11.2%, and a Democratic-controlled legislature steeling for a fight. Having pledged not to raise taxes, Deukmejian instead offered an 18-month salvage plan to balance the budget. The battle bitter...
...biggest for a while: temperatures remain well below freezing, and underneath some of the barges 15-foot-to-20-foot ice buildups have sprouted that will take longer to thaw than the river. Predicts Wills: "The tows will be here till spring...