Word: previous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous mayor, Ralph J. Park, left the city's books in an exemplary mess. Park mixed into one simmering municipal slush fund the city's taxes, federal grants and special-purpose bond and note revenues. Hs financial methods have prompted an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kucinich alleges that Park illegally spent bond revenue on general operations while the banks looked the other way and handed out money to cover the growing deficit. Park won their cooperation with business-oriented policies, including major tax cuts establishing a "free trade zone" for banks and large businesses. To keep...
...hard to come from behind once, it's two times as hard to come from behind twice. But the team that had compiled a 10-0 record previous to yesterday's game and is seeded fourth in the Easterns met the challenge when Brynteson tallied her second goal at 3:07 on a follow-up play...
Interestingly, this love is usually homosexual, but it is part of Baldwin's vision of change that protagonists endure little suffering because of their sexual preferences. Unlike many of his previous homosexual characters, Arthur and Jimmy enrich their own lives and those of others through their relationship: Baldwin sanctions the participants and counsels the reader to accept and to bless their union also...
...vital respect, this year's winning roster was similar to those of previous years: it had, overall, a distinctly American cast. Continuing their domination of the Nobel science prizes, Americans took two out of three of the physics awards, and one each of the twin medicine, chemistry and economics honors...
...contribute at all" to the South Korean perception of ebbing U.S. support, Reischauer said. Carter "flubbed" his human rights policy in both South Korea and the Philippines by "doing nothing," he said, explaining that by visiting Park, Carter gave him a sign of approval which made all previous scolding meaningless...