Word: yearlong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone out to "do something, do anything" to slow runaway prices. Democratic Presidential Challenger Edward Kennedy continues taunting Carter to come out and debate the Massachusetts Senator's recommendation for mandatory wage and price controls. On Wall Street, respected Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn last week called for a yearlong wage and price freeze and other inflation-fighting measures to stop "a slide toward national bankruptcy." Even in normally free-spending Congress, cries went up to fight inflation by slashing budgets. A bipartisan group of 44 Senators signed a petition calling for $26 billion in spending cuts next year...
...fantasies sent in, and though they are hardly a random sampling, she thinks it gives a fair idea of what men daydream about. To check that impression, she took a job anonymously as a sex-fantasy columnist for a girlie magazine; sure enough, the fantasies sent in during her yearlong stint were much the same as those from readers of her book. She found that the sexually voracious woman is one of the most popular themes, as is the fantasy of performing oral sex. Unlike women, who prefer fantasies of sex with faceless strangers, men's fantasy partners...
...first tough question the Massachusetts courts had to answer was who should decide what Spring would want were he competent to choose. The resulting yearlong legal wrangle ended a month ago when the supreme judicial court ruled that the decision was up to the probate court judge, not relatives or doctors...
...Berkeley, a group of female sociology students at the University of California banded together as Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) and waged a yearlong campaign against Elbaki Hermassi, an assistant professor of sociology. He was charged with fondling and propositioning 13 students, offering a good grade in exchange for sex, and writing an unfavorable letter of recommendation for a student who refused his sexual advances. Charges were brought to Hermassi's department chairman. The professor was reprimanded orally, and according to the university the behavior stopped. But WOASH dismissed the reprimand as a "slap on the wrist...