Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lengthy delays were closely tied to objections and pressure from a few city officials and the upper ranks of the police force, who consider the CRB meddlesome and unnecessary. Their delay tactics and objections, however, are short-sighted and inappropriate...
...candidates for the council Jonathan Myers and Ed Cyr, have already begun to campaign, and some political observers predict the field's eventual size to reach the upper teens...
While the rooms on Moors' second floor arestill singles off a hallway, the upper floors havebeen renovated to create split level suites with acommon room and a bedroom on the first floor andmore bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs...
Just what were the upper middle-class Blacks and whites who took part in the second Forsyth march protesting? Was it a revival of the Jim Crow mentality? Or was it the more subtle racism which now denies an equal opportunity to this nation's minorities? If they were protesting the latter, the protestors were marching down the wrong road...
...Iran appears to hold the upper hand, if only psychologically. The Iraqis have been put on the defensive by the recent campaign, for which both sides have amassed at least 200,000 soldiers. Since beginning its offensive in December, the Iranian army has made small gains south of Fish Lake, a 120- sq.-mi. area flooded by the Iraqis as a defensive barrier. Iran has also made incremental progress southeast of Basra in the marshy terrain along the Shatt al Arab, a strategic waterway that affords access to the Persian Gulf. The new toehold has enabled the Iranians to bombard...