Word: undoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cosell must have been there to signify television. Ali was definitely the symbol of fighters who do not retire. What Singer Wayne Newton represented was unclear, perhaps Las Vegas. "It's a great thrill to be here tonight," Newton said, bouncing into the ring, resisting the impulse to undo his tie. Maybe Newton's part had to do with something Leonard once said...
...station. By then, however, inertia had set in. Bills to transfer control died in committee. Finally last year, Congress passed a bill, as Moynihan put it, "to return the building to its use before Congress began fumbling with it." It authorizes the Government to spend $69 million more to undo what it did. Another $9 million has been approved for roof repairs. If the rusting parking garage ever opens, each of its 1,200 spaces will have cost an estimated $62,500. But the plan, in keeping with President Reagan's free-market philosophy, depends on getting private developers...
...have seen our country suffer from the policies initiated by President Reagan in economics, in foreign policy, in some social programs. He has undone important accomplishments not only of me and other Democratic Presidents but of his Republican predecessors. Reagan and James Watt, his Interior Secretary, have tried to undo much of the progress made in environmental quality dating from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. It is grievously damaging. The budget deficits that Reagan will accumulate in four years, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative, exceed the total deficits of all the peacetime years
...made an unsuccessful bid to be elected President of Iran. Ghotbzadeh remained defiant until the very end. In a message smuggled out of prison before his death, he declared: "I want the record to be clear that I saw the light and tried as best I could to undo the damage I had done in terms of supporting the satanic regime of the mullahs...
...deny that the results of Talaat Pasha's orders were tragic. However, the events that occurred more than 60 years ago, under the aegis of the Ottomans, should not be avenged today. Turkey has long since put behind her the evils of her empire. Terrorist acts will not undo what was done, nor will they result in an independent state for the Armenian minority in Turkey...