Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year's volume of his autobiography, Memoirs, Moscow and Beyond reveals one of the great figures of modern history's essential humanism. In Memoirs Sakharov told the story of his early life, his involvement in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s nuclear arsenal and his transformation, in the 1960s, into a leading Soviet dissident. The first book also documented Sakharov and his second wife Elena Bonner's internal exile in Gorky and their persistent struggles for human rights despite KGB harassment...
...late 1960s, when Heimert was appointed, house masters took a strong role in creating a character for the residence. At that time, masters selected each sophomore class from among students applying for admission...
According to Barbara Ackermann, who served as a city councillor in the late 1960s and as mayor in 1972 and 1973, the city's action at this juncture has been unified and rapid compared with its response to the most recent major U.S. military involvement, the conflict in Vietnam...
...sense: the consequences of military action are unpredictable. I learned this as Secretary time after time after time: we did certain things we thought would lead to certain results, and the results were different. The Soviets have learned the same thing. Nobody predicted at any particular point in the 1960s the evolution of events in Vietnam. And I think what Powell and Schwarzkopf and the Marine generals have said here, and said very responsibly, is "We can predict the outcome but not the blood costs, particularly; we know we can win, but we can't predict how long it will...
...treatment to slow runaway wage and price increases. Brazil announced a hold on wage increases until July and an indefinite freeze on prices. Economy Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello also disclosed plans to dismantle much of the country's elaborate system of indexation, which has been used since the 1960s to offset the effects of inflation. Among the system's inflation-fueling features scheduled to be phased out: so-called overnight bank accounts that pay interest to depositors...