Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than $500,000 a year in lieu of taxes. (It is charged substantially more for water, sewer hook-ups, and similar services.) Politicians have grumbled about that fact for years, but in the wake of the massive tax cuts stemming from Proposition 2 1/2, their protests are getting louder, A bill filed with the state legislature this year sought to end exemptions for universities from the property tax; though it was given little chance of passage, it was enough to draw President Bok to Beacon Hill, where he argued forcefully that taxes would force the closing of dozens...
...rolling along with the sounds is also a form of aural self-defense for some, such as New York TV Producer Anthony Payne, 34. "There are buses, airplanes, sirens," says Payne. "You have to replace them with something louder, by force-feeding your own sounds into your ears." Manhattan Computer Executive Michael Starr, 43, suggests that the private concert "is a great way of snubbing the world. Can you imagine if Philip Roth had had one growing up? He'd never have written Portnoy's Complaint. He never would have heard the nagging...
...finally learned not to rely on the media, which has a liberal bias anyway. So we bypass them by mail and TV and go directly to the voters. Democrats don't like that, and they're crying." Viguerie predicts the Democratic screams are going to got louder. "Jesse has an army out there," he says. "and he talks to them almost weekly by mail. We're years ahead of the Democrats in the technology." So powerful is Helms' club back home that the North Carolina Republican Party has become a weak appendage...
...mile mark, we became aware of a dull roar ahead, louder than the usual crowd noise that stretched uninterrupted from beginning to end. At 13 miles, the halfway point in the race, we were in Wellesley, where we funneled through a mass of screaming students who stood cheering in the rain for hours. After that experience I will never have the heart to make a wisecrack about Wellesley again, although one quick-minded student tried to get my brother's phone number...
...better than that," Haig told the crowd. "When I'm in the Oval Office and the hot line rings, the President frowns, looks at me and says, 'It's for you.'" The crowd roared with laughter. Then, with exquisite timing, Haig added to even louder laughter: "Unless it's a crisis. Then the Vice President gets...