Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing, Soviet officials had insisted that Andropov was recovering. For another, no amount of warning and contingency planning renders the actual event routine when the deceased is the leader of the Soviet Union. So it was with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev-all of whom were, like Yuri Andropov, a long time dying, and all of whose deaths occasioned not just obituaries but portentous talk of epochs and turning points. If Andropov's passing occasioned anxiety as well, it was because questions the experts have been asking for so long could still not be answered...
...support of labor, whatever its impact on the public perception of Mondale as a captive of special interests, is a tremendous asset to his campaign. Some political analysts estimate that the combination of union organizational help and actual contributions is worth some $20 million, which is about a third of what Mondale expects to spend in the primaries and general-election campaign. Mondale's foes attack him for courting labor so assiduously, but most of them also did so and now envy his success...
...programs at the other correctional facilities place greater emphasis on actual tutoring. "The major goal is education," says Moeller, who founded and directed the program at Massachusetts Correction Institution (MCI) at Concord...
...into the bad spots. They are sweating, if no one else is. "I can assure you, there is plenty of snow for the competition," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish president of the International Olympic Committee. "We expect this to be not one of the best, but the actual best of all the 14 Winter Games." Indeed, the facilities are handsome. Mike Moran, press director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, says, "The village is the nicest one, summer or winter, I've ever seen." In Lake Placid, N.Y., the Olympic Village of four years ago has been turned into...
...also happens to be hogwash. Based on the perception that ROTC's exclusion of gay men and lesbians has some actual military value, it ignores the contribution of thousands of "closeted" gay people throughout history. It also ignores the basic violations of human dignity involved. As long as institutions such as ROTC, and by association Harvard, deny complete access to gay people, the nation as a whole cannot be truly free...