Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Protection Act of 1989, passed by Congress last month amid an orgy of jingoistic rhetoric. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law on constitutional grounds, as seems likely, Congress might be stampeded into approving an anti-flag burning amendment urged by President Bush. It might be wiser to turn down the heat...
...security zone around the Soviet heartland. For most of the postwar period, the Soviets pursued those goals by raw military power and ideological control. Both have slipped as a series of military stalemates and the example of failed economies under police-state oppression led restless East bloc nations to turn westward for inspiration...
This summer, after scrapping plans to turn the paper into a tabloid, Hearst put it up for sale. Company executives, who flew from New York City to announce the shutdown in the paper's newsroom, said they were unable to find a buyer. Among those who declined to purchase the operation, which reportedly lost $2 million a month, were industrialist Marvin Davis and Jose Lozano, publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion. Now that the Herald Examiner is gone, Los Angeles becomes the latest and largest addition to the growing list of U.S. cities with only one major daily...
March 10: Turn out the lights, theGarden party's over...
...predicted that if 1-2-3 is defeated, rentcontrol critics will turn their attention to legalchallenges in the courts...