Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With his back to the wall, Gore was not content to squabble just with Dukakis. Instead, the Tennessee Senator became the first Democratic candidate in either 1984 or this year to grant Jackson the honors that come with full candidate equality: a no-holds-barred attack on his record. Speaking before a Jewish group in New York City, Gore declared, "I categorically reject his notion that there is a moral equivalence between Israel and the P.L.O. I am dismayed by his embrace of Arafat and Castro." But there was another, even more explosive sentence in an earlier speech that...
...Academy didn't nominate any of the actors (except William Hurt) who starred in movies up for best picture. Not Nicholas Cage from Moonstruck, not John Lone from The Last Emperor, not Sebastian Rice-Edwards, the charming moppet who starred in Hope and Glory. Michael Douglas was nominated for Wall Street, not Fatal Attraction...
...party's over! Time to tighten our belts, America. With a little bipartisan compromise and self-sacrifice, we can bring down the deficits," say Wall Street's investment bankers and stock brokers...
...what's wrong with Peterson's plan for recovery-through-self-sacrifice? Because of the simple fact that he and his supporters will not have to make the sacrifices. His hypocritical plan is motivated by the selfish interests of Wall Street and is nothing more than another round of Reaganomics in disguise...
...Caius, you have to wear an [academic] gown to dinner," Hurst says. And Chirgwin described one of the traditions involving Clare College--the all-women's college she attended at Cambridge--and King's College. "Once a month one of their drinking clubs comes to piss on our wall, and we all gather on top and throw eggs and flour down at them...