Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sold in the early 1980s by Harvard. The current owners are Taylor and April Bodman, who had moved there from New York...
...provision that disqualifies for the presidency anyone wed to a foreigner, such as Suu Kyi, who is married to British academic Michael Aris. slorc's current leader, Senior General Than Shwe, has improved the image of the junta that killed more than 3,000 student protesters in the late 1980s and early 1990s, changed the country's name to Myanmar and nullified the general election of May 1990 in which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy routed the pro-government party...
Larson's interest in guns and gun control was aroused in the early 1980s by a series of teenage drive-by shootings that rocked the quiet neighborhood in Maryland where he lives with his wife, three young daughters and a goldfish named Joey...
...reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members. But the hard line is no longer imposed as it was in the 1980s, when more than a dozen terrorist bombs were aimed at exiles who dissented from its position. Lately other dialogistas have come forward, including even Antonio Veciana, a co-founder of Alpha 66, an anti-Castro paramilitary group, who now supports some compromise. "Those who had been silent have begun...
Author Robert Timberg, now deputy Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore Sun, is himself an Annapolis graduate and Marine veteran of Vietnam. Covering the Reagan White House as the Iran-contra affair unfolded during the 1980s, Timberg "kept picking up echoes of Vietnam ... I remember thinking that perhaps Iran-contra was at least in part the bill for Vietnam finally coming due." Timberg had been told that the nightingale cannot perform unless it first hears a few notes from another nightingale. His conceit is that in the '80s, Ronald Reagan sang the nightingale's song of patriotism and military pride...