Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...after Thatcher announced she was stepping down, public attention was already focusing on the government to come. Even as Britons mourned or celebrated the end of her reign, Thatcher was making plans to move out of 10 Downing Street and into a five-bedroom Georgian-style house in the leafy south London suburb of Dulwich. She will continue to represent her constituency of Finchley, in northwest London, and will undoubtedly continue to berate the opposition in the House of Commons, albeit from the back benches. That politics is a cruel business, Thatcher understood. She neither gave nor expected quarter...
...North Carolina Senator, who sits on the ethics panel judging the Keating Five, would probably have to recuse himself in a real courtroom. On the campaign trail he derided Alan Cranston as the Senator "who carried the most water for Charles Keating." Peremptory challenge, anyone...
...government has had a trust responsibility since 1868 to provide for Navajo education, it has done a sorry job. Native Americans in general, and Navajos in particular, have one of the nation's highest rates of illiteracy and high school delinquency. The average Navajo adult has received * only five years of schooling. Today half the Navajos on the reservation are under the age of 20, and perhaps a quarter of those teenagers are not in school. A third of all high school-age Native Americans are classified as educationally handicapped...
...just the economy but will also fret about getting sick or wonder whether war will break out in the Middle East. Barbara McCuen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha warns that there may be psychological fallout for the family. "The tensions come out at home," she says. "A five-year-old may not understand why there won't be a big Christmas...
While Bush was overseas, a handful of new polls were published showing increasing doubts in the U.S. about gulf policy and Bush's leadership. Members of Congress and other self-acclaimed authorities on war and foreign policy tuned up once the President's plane crossed the continental shelf. Forty-five House Democrats filed a court suit challenging Bush's authority to wage war against Iraq without congressional approval. The Washington Post sought out the opinions of eight presidential scholars, and all but one were worried about Bush's softening hold on the American mind; their dour musings were syndicated across...