Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election system, people with more moneyand more resources can reach more voters," hesays. Under PR, though, "you've got a citycouncillor who can get elected with one-tenth ofthe vote. It doesn't matter if that one-tenthcomes from every household or from one-tenth ofthe city...
Driving their sputtering Trabants and Wartburgs filled with stereos, luggage and children, the refugees needed to travel only 15 miles from the East German border to reach Bavaria in West Germany...
...showdown with Harvard in the semifinal match. Harvard literally crushed Yale in that match 15-11, 15-2, 15-3, as the Leis discovered that the Harvard team they had beaten earlier in the season had drastically improved. FDU beat Hartford in the other semifinal game to reach the finals against Harvard...
...being waved for all to see. Charles Keating is a former owner of California's Lincoln Savings and Loan and a defendant in a lawsuit involving racketeering, fraud and conspiracy in using the institution's funds. After the smoke clears, bailout of this S&L is expected to reach $2.5 billion, making it the nation's costliest thrift failure. When asked whether his fat contributions to the five Senators influenced them to take up his cause, Keating replied, "I want to say in the most forceful way I can: I certainly hope...
...repeatedly pressured him to approve housing projects. Many of them, HUD documents show, were in Puerto Rico, which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided to move Puerto Rico operations out of the New York region, which would put them beyond D'Amato's reach. D'Amato also helped gain HUD financing for work in his hometown on Long Island, where his brother Armand, a lawyer, profited from the closings on house sales. Armand D'Amato also represented a company that won a HUD contract for a luxury resort rather than housing for the poor...