Word: gone
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...malcontents. Says Krzysztof: "One shouldn't complain too much. I enjoy my work." Maria points out that a decade ago they were far worse off, living in a single attic room that they had obtained only by agreeing to care for their elderly landlady. Since then, Maria has gone to work to supplement the family income, which now totals 15,000 zloty a month ($500). The factory helped them get a three-room apartment on Ursus' Keniga Street, a ten-minute bus ride from the factory; the flat is barely adequate for the couple and their 18-year...
...Richard Nixon on the stand. Though Judge Bryant did not explain his sentences, he may have decided that what Felt called the "serious blemish" of conviction was nearly ample punishment. Bryant, says Deputy Attorney General Charles Renfrew, "apparently felt that they had been punished and that the message had gone out that constitutional rights would be protected, even from those at the highest level...
...choice came at the eleventh hour, after former Treasury Secretary William Simon and Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston had been counted out. Some members of Reagan's transition team were surprised and soured by the decision. They felt that the post should have gone to former Treasury Undersecretary Charls Walker or Reagan Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan. The selection of Regan, 61, seems to have been the handiwork of Reagan's campaign chairman, CIA Director-designate William Casey, who got to know the Merrill Lynch chief when Casey was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the early 1970s...
Lennon's death was not like Elvis Presley's. Presley seemed at the end, trapped, defeated and hopeless. Lennon could have gone that way too, could have destroyed himself. But he did something harder. He lived. And, for all the fame and finance, that seemed to be what he took the most pride...
Some forever, not for better, Some have gone and some remain...