Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate finally hit upon a solution to the problem of financing: ignore it. By an overwhelming vote of 97 to 2, the upper chamber approved a $1.4 billion drug measure that would boost penalties for pushing drugs and beef up federal narcotics enforcement on a broad front. Just before final adoption, a handful of Senators on the floor shouted through a resolution pledging to find the money later. Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield, who was behind the maneuver, was not proud of it. "It's a gimmick," he admitted afterward. "All we're doing is Band-Aiding ourselves over...
...Here we have a bunch of white, upper-class students wandering around campus. A lot of us want to go study the working class as an intellectual exercise," says Ladin. "But when I did the work I really loved it. I discovered I like people enough to be effective at working with people from many different backgrounds...
...victory sets the stage for an October 11 showdown at Boston College, with an upper-division rating in the New England Championships at stake. The Eagles also own a 2-0 league mark, and are tied for first place with Harvard in the New England Union...
...them. Chambers allegedly strangled Levin, then remained nearby as morning rose and the body was discovered and removed. Even shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder trial, relentless public glare...
...Summons to Memphis lives up to its introduction and its author's renown. The story of grown children locked in polite, civil warfare with a tyrannical father is genuinely funny. And the setting offers a leisurely look at the geography that has emerged patchwork from Taylor's stories: the Upper South, which can be described as a swath of territory and customs running west from Richmond to St. Louis, with the emphasis on Tennessee. But Taylor has done more than obey all the rules he has imposed on himself, now and in the past. He satisfies surface expectations...