Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed by Adam Fratto...
...Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian ResearchCenter and Gurney professor of history andpolitical science, said the rapid change wasprompting a "general discombobulation ofcommunism...
...failure of OXFAM to gain broad appeal is due to the fact that a large portion of the public believes it to be politically biased. If PBHA is seriously interested in raising money for its many worthy progrms, it must immediately discontinue its active role in all governmental politics. Adam W. Smith '90 Naomi H. Wittes '90 Member, PBHA...
...countries of Eastern Europe are breaking free unevenly. Poland and Hungary lead the way, East Germany is groping to catch up, and Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania remain far behind. As the participants -- even Gorbachev -- improvise from one day to the next, old alliances are being strained. "Almost overnight," says Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences, "all the rivalries and tensions in the bloc that Communist orthodoxy had papered over for decades burst into the open...
...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...