Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More recently, Nemy scored another memorable OOR in a column on the unfairness of life. Readers of the Times's news section may remember that a few years ago President Carter set off a wave of protest with his explanation that if cutbacks on Medicare funding of abortion meant that poor women would have to give birth when they didn't want to, well, life is simply unfair. Nemy makes Carter look like a raving egalitarian by suggesting that life is chiefly unfair because one cannot always sit next to the person one would like at a classy dinner party...
...Soviet-built Iraqi tanks, armored personnel carriers, guns and rocket launchers dot the eerie landscape, each hunkered down behind its own earth revetment. If the Iranians attempted to move toward Amara, they would invite the same decimation that they received in five full-scale attacks last summer, when wave upon wave of poorly trained Islamic Guards rushed across the flood plain of the Shatt al Arab toward Basra...
...Rose Bird," said Deukmejian in his campaign, "has done more damage to the California Supreme Court and the administration of justice than any of her predecessors." That battle cry from the Governor-elect signals merely the latest assault wave on the court. Whether the damage was done by Bird, her critics or both, the sad result is that this state court, once reputed to be the nation's best, has lost both its luster and its leadership role...
...various antinuclear efforts. In November 1980, the bishops authorized the Bernardin committee to begin work on the pastoral letter. Pressed by mounting local demands to help the poor and the unemployed, key church leaders like Roach also assailed Reagan's $1.5 trillion defense buildup. The ensuing antinuclear wave in Western Europe and the U.S. has strengthened the bishops' commitment...
Nearly all radio disc jockeys are cut from the same cloth: polyester. For the self-consciously hip veejays of MTV, the style is leather and vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...