Word: across
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collapse of the old regimes and the astonishing changes under way in the Soviet Union open prospects for a Europe of cooperation in which the Iron Curtain disappears, people and goods move freely across frontiers, NATO and the Warsaw Pact evolve from military powerhouses into merely formal alliances, and the threat of war steadily fades. They also raise the question of German reunification, an issue for which politicians in the West or, for that matter, Moscow have yet to formulate strategies. Finally, should protest get out of hand, there is the risk of dissolution into chaos, sooner or later necessitating...
...comedy seems almost insatiable. Seven of the ten top-grossing movies of 1988 were comedies, as are eight of the ten current top-rated TV series. Cable channels like HBO and Showtime have made comedy specials a staple of their schedules, while vintage sitcoms are being perpetually recycled across the dial...
...long stretch of grass between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument is teeming with demonstrators who have come from universities across the country to demand that the politicians listen...
About 450 campuses sent delegations to the main rally in Washington, D.C., and to about 1000 other abortion rights demonstrations across the nation...
...evidenced by Sunday, we're just barely scratching the potential of students across the country," Bingaman says. He adds that NARAL recently hired a field organizer whose sole responsibility will be recruiting support for the pro-choice movement on college campuses...