Word: 1980s
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...mild concern Clinton expressed about Jabal Abu Ghaneim was belied by the U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution censuring Israel. U.S. support is as strong as ever. There is no mention of the billions of dollars in aid (more than five billion annually since the late 1980s) that fashion Israel into a regional superpower waning either...
Granger's play "Eminent Domain," which centered on a conflict between a professor's work and home life, reached Broadway at the Circle in the Square theater in the early 1980s...
Ever since, even after he got his teeth fixed, Lott has advanced himself by assembling such snaggletoothed majorities. As the House Republican whip, or chief vote counter, during the early 1980s, Lott helped forge alliances with both the Boll Weevil Democrats, who were ignored by their party's liberal leaders, and with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass...
Scientists have long dreamed of doing what the Roslin team did. After all, if starfish and other invertebrates can practice asexual reproduction, why can't it be extended to the rest of the animal kingdom? In the 1980s, developmental biologists at what is now Allegheny University of the Health Sciences came tantalizingly close. From the red blood cells of an adult frog, they raised a crop of lively tadpoles. These tadpoles were impressive creatures, remembers University of Minnesota cell biologist Robert McKinnell, who followed the work closely. "They swam and ate and developed beautiful eyes and hind limbs," he says...
...than undermining it from within. This selective and gradualist approach allowed China to keep at least a measure of faith that it was somehow preserving its own inner value system even while using the West in a host of developing areas. During this 19th century period--as during the 1980s and into the present--the effects of this attempt on the worlds of political culture were profoundly ambivalent. It turned out to be impossible to relegate foreign ideas to neatly circumscribed compartments; and by the end of the 19th century the pressure from the world of ideas...