Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They call it trimming the Christmas tree. As Congress scrambles to adjourn, a wave of special-interest bills and home-state boondoggles is gaveled into law without protest. "The only way sponsors can get them passed is to bulldoze them through and hope that no one notices," says Senator Howard Metzenbaum. "It happens every year." This year is no exception, despite the lawmakers' public hand-wringing about looming deficits...
...subsequent move last week to give moderates a majority on Labor's policy-setting National Executive Committee represent a clear victory for the party's majority of middle-of-the-road socialists. But the militants have vowed to fight back. Meanwhile, Thatcher is still riding the wave of public approval caused by her two-fisted conduct of the Falklands war, though such memories are beginning to fade. And despite 14% unemployment, the highest since the 1930s, Labor has been too preoccupied with factional squabbling to gain in the polls. Late surveys show Labor 13 percentage points behind...
...Poltergeist) as a sheriff investigating the killings aided by a burnt-out New York City detective (Robert Urich, TV's Dan Tanna). She's spunky and believable, and she can make you care about her professional problems, her sputtery love life and - almost - a crime wave in the bovine population...
...princesses in enchanted gardens. At a place known only as "The Castle," she brings him fruit and milk on a tray reminiscent of a Cezanne still-life. Her lover, the master of The Castle, spends most of his time sitting in a dimly lit room doing a giant wave jigsaw puzzle while listening to whale noises. He also cooks fabulous French food and owns not one, but two elderly white Citroens...
GENTRIFICATION raises a myriad of further questions, including whether City Hall purposely cuts fire protection to areas eyed by property developers to hasten resident turnover--as was charged in New York by some arson-watchers after a similar wave in 1972 But in the meantime, while city officials debate what to do with all the vacant buildings still dotting the map, or how to beef up the arson squad to catch the culprits, they might do well to think a little more thoroughly about the fate of Boston's changing neighborhoods, and how to enable poorer long-term residents...