Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aftermath of a conflict that looked like the start of civil...
...Shah. Soon billions of dollars' worth of the most sophisticated weaponry and aircraft in the U.S. arsenal began pouring into Iran. America's decision to depend on the Shah as its surrogate policeman in the Persian Gulf was perceived as even more crucial in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, when Iran disregarded the boycott and continued to sell vital petroleum to the West. In retrospect, one top U.S. policymaker of that period reflects: "We let the arms sales get out of control, and we failed to press the Shah to establish the roots of democratic...
...only tell part of the story. Specifically, I can tell about that mad half-hour when I learned the real reason for the great snows and saw the aftermath of the "accident" that almost killed a man in Harvard Square...
Such superficial changes have typified Arizona's reaction to the unpleasantness of Don Bolles' violent death. Despite the massive publicity given to a team of investigative reporters who vowed in the aftermath of the murder to avenge their slain colleague by going into Arizona to "turn it upside down," the state has changed very little from the kind of place Don Bolles tried to clean up. Arizona politicians, while trying to eliminate the most visible signs of organized crime, have done so without seriously threatening the pervasive corruption and underlying institutions that led to Bolles' murder. Although small reforms have...
...Teng's power grew, his relationship with Mao degenerated. The Chairman complained that Teng rarely consulted him and treated him as a "dead ancestor." In the aftermath of Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward, Teng tried to reintroduce a measure of private farming to give peasants the initiative to produce more food. In a statement that would later be cited as proof that he was an "unrepentant capitalist reader," Teng declared: "Private farming is all right as long as it raises production, just as it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white as long as it catches...