Word: used
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard hopes to use the City of Cambridge as a guinea pig for its laboratory experiments" until it is controlled by the University's "disciples of Karl Marx," said Councillor John J. Toomey, when presenting the resolution to sever Harvard from Cambridge before the council...
...author's nights to remember are less dramatic. Recalling his marathon coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Baker downplays the pageantry in favor of offstage vignettes, like long lines of colonial potentates in animal skins and gold braid forming to use Westminster Abbey's toilets. The Eisenhower White House produces little excitement, partly because there wasn't much, but mainly because Press Secretary James Hagerty ran a "tight, tight ship." Later there was the smothering style of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "For you, Russ, I'd leak like a sieve...
...step, some members of Congress felt that the President had failed to flex the Super 301 muscle firmly enough. They contended that Japanese barriers extended well beyond the three areas cited, to items ranging from cellular phones and medical equipment to fish products and aluminum. "The Administration's feeble use of the Super 301 provision comes in the face of our continuing trade deficit," said Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, whose tough trade proposals gave rise to the Super 301 legislation. "((Bush)) has signaled to the world that he will take ((Japan's)) trade abuse lying down...
...were put on a revised rotation that meshed better with their innate clocks. The number of days worked consecutively was cut, and the officers were not moved from one shift to another as frequently. Police on the new schedule had 40% fewer patrol-car accidents than before, and their use of sleeping pills and alcohol dropped by half...
Fairness also has little to do with the system of guandao, or official profiteering, that permeates Chinese society. On a small scale, leaders at all levels routinely use their positions to obtain free restaurant meals or theater tickets. In a grander manner, officials buy scarce raw materials such as coal and timber at low, subsidized prices and sell them on the open market for handsome profits...