Word: basing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...MEIN BACKYARD. Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Atwood heard a common complaint recently. A governor of a remote state flew to Washington to head off possible military-base closings that would affect his local economy. So what else is new? The governor was Carl-Ludwig Wagner, and the state was Rhineland-Palatinate in West Germany...
Savage has always had an uncertain political base in his district, a mostly black area that encompasses parts of Chicago's South Side and some adjacent working-class suburbs. Running against divided fields, he has never won more than 52% of the vote in a primary contest. This year his opponents rallied behind a single candidate, Reynolds, a former Rhodes scholar with support from a number of prominent blacks in the district. Savage may have decided that a low-road campaign of race baiting and anti-Semitism was the safest way to stymie a strong opponent. Even so, he squeaked...
Harvard added another run on Marcel Durand's double in the second. But Del Vecchio, trying to score from second on a single, caught his cleat rounding third, fell and was thrown out trying to return to base...
...Crimson extended its lead to 7-0 as Hurley led off with a double, advanced to third on Dan Scanlan's single and came in to score on Tim Andriola's base hit. Del Vecchio, hitting with a severely sprained ankle, added a sacrifice fly to bring in Harvard's seventh...
...time when we can least afford this waste and misdirection of our best undergraduate and academic talent. The nation is going through a painful structural transition, both externally, in its position in the world, and int ernally, in the changes in its industrial base, its modes of organization, its basic social institutions and its dominant values. This is reflected not only in the poverty of our political culture, but in the seemingly intractable social problems that beset the nation--the problems of chronic poverty, crime, racism, inequality, gender discrimination, an aging population, inadequate public health, and environmental deterioration...