Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graham lost the 1988 primary by 51 votes, on a rainy Thursday after running a sluggish campaign effort. Although Thompson bested her handily as a write-in candidate for the general election, much of his support came from city voters disillusioned with Graham's record...
...little else. Whiffs of scandal occasionally become gusts, like a former IRS assistant commissioner who could not adequately explain why he charged the agency for airfare to visit his girlfriend. Burnham's audit includes abuses and inefficiencies that date back more than 50 years. Recent probes by the General Accounting Office have discovered broad areas of error and mismanagement. A study covering 1987, notes Burnham, concluded that the IRS failed to keep orderly accounts of its $1 trillion annual collections. For the same year, the GAO found that nearly half its samplings of 6 million notices and letters that...
...search of a just and peaceful future, millions of blacks and whites look to Mandela and President F.W. de Klerk to negotiate on power sharing. The education of De Klerk. -- What role did sanctions play? -- Mikhail Gorbachev faces another Afghanistan in Azerbaijan, and a Soviet general offers an eyewitness account of the bloodshed...
...Jung denounced Roh's gambit as a "political coup d'etat" and demanded a general election, but most South Koreans were not so disgruntled. The country's fractious four-party system is unwieldy and inefficient, and besides, the opposition parties themselves are largely one-man shows. If nothing else, the realignment will reduce South Korea's confusing roster of same-sounding political parties, and perhaps with it, put an end to internecine bickering in the legislature...
...death/ We got to fight the powers that be"). The song not only whipped the movie to a fiery pitch but sold nearly 500,000 singles and became an anthem for millions of youths, many of them black and living in inner-city ghettoes. For these listeners, rap in general, and Public Enemy in particular, is more than entertainment -- more, even, than an expression of their alienation and resentments. It is a major social force...