Word: ago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What are you reading these days? "Wuthering Heights," he replies. Ah, yes. Hollywood made a movie from that one 50 years ago, and made a star of the actor who played Heathcliff. Larry something. What ever happened...
...fully accredited public high school, Harvey Milk was the subject of a short-lived controversy when it began classes four years ago. It was founded by the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth, a ten-year-old organization established following the brutal gang rape of a gay teenager in a New York City bar. The school is named after Harvey Milk, the gay San Francisco supervisor who was murdered with Mayor George Moscone by a disgruntled former city official...
Ortega lobbed his bombshell during ceremonies celebrating the centenary of democracy in Costa Rica two weeks ago. He accused the contras of murderous ambushes, and as a result, he was thinking of canceling the cease-fire. Ortega's announcement visibly angered President George Bush. The "little man in a military uniform," said Bush, had behaved like "an unwanted animal at a garden party...
...then, did Ortega venture so much opprobrium abroad to score points at home in a race that, by most accounts, he was already winning? The answer may lie in a poll published two weeks ago by the Nicaraguan Institute of Public Opinion. With nearly 90% of Nicaragua's 1.97 million voters registered, large numbers of them as the result of a Sandinista campaign, Ortega led the opposition by 26% to 21%. Yet the Institute's sample showed that 46% remained undecided -- more than enough to make any candidate for office extremely uneasy...
...made last year by a joint U.S.-Argentine expedition. The dinosaur was named Herrerasaurus, after Victorino Herrera, the goat farmer who first led scientists to the area in northwestern Argentina where the bones were found. Smaller than Apatosaurus and less fearsome than Tyrannosaurus, this dinosaur flourished 230 million years ago during the unique period when most of the earth's landmasses were gathered into a single supercontinent, now called Pangea. Until the most recent find, only a smattering of Herrerasaurus bones had been unearthed. Now scientists will be able to look over the complete skeleton for important evolutionary clues. While...