Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Minnesota Timberwolves, a National Basketball Association expansion team. The newcomers are averaging a league-leading 24,000 fans a game in the downtown Minneapolis Metrodome. The North Stars attract just 11,000 fans a game, nearly 25% below the league average. Only a better arena, the Gunds argue, will save professional hockey in the state that produces more pro players than any other...
...found themselves in the unaccustomed role of Social Security's staunchest defenders. Says a Republican leader: "As usual, ((the Democrats)) began flapping around and knocking each other down like the F Troop of politics." To the consternation of Democratic leaders, G.O.P. lawmakers began distributing campaign buttons with the slogan SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. VOTE REPUBLICAN. George Bush also weighed in, repeating the pledge made in his State of the Union Address that he would not "mess around" with Social Security. "This is an effort to get me to try to raise taxes on the American people by the charade of cutting...
Though he said his program would initially cost $500 million, Umina quoted estimates from the Boston Globe and computer research firms that said the state could eventually save more than $4 billion by making government more accountable to its constituents...
Like democracy, the Banner looks best when compared with its alternatives. "Amber waves of grain" may be more peaceable than "bombs bursting in air," but America, the Beautiful lacks drama. My Country 'Tis of Thee was stolen, note for note, from the British national anthem, God Save the Queen. And God Bless America has obvious problems with the separation of church and state, but it has de facto status as the anthem of the Philadelphia Flyers, who won the Stanley Cup in 1974 after Kate Smith inspired them with the ode to the land that she loved. Still trotted...
Westerners might wonder how things could get worse. But returning to the city I knew all too well under the iron hand of Ceausescu, I understand why Rumanians feel that they've never had it so good. They revel in their traffic jams; Ceausescu all but banned cars to save fuel for export. After 24 years of state-sponsored terror, martial law by young soldiers who defeated the Securitate thugs in the Christmas revolution is a relief. "I like waiting for a newspaper," Ion, a Bucharest undergraduate, said last week. "For the first time here, there's news worth reading...