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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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-- In Bulgaria at least 50,000 people marched peacefully through central Sofia, chanting "Democracy!" and "Free elections!" and demanding that Todor Zhivkov, the autocratic hard-liner who had been ousted only a week earlier after 35 years in power, be put on trial. Although the unthinkable has become a daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Irresistible Tide | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

I am feeling slightly ridiculous as I sit on a dock that juts into an artificial lagoon and stroke a dolphin's nose with my feet. The stroking is a handshake of sorts, a way of introducing me and four other people at the Hyatt Waikoloa in Hawaii to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: An Uneasy Dip with the Dolphins | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

When Wendy Giebler finishes her job as a video production manager in Haverstraw, N.Y., each day, she starts a second shift of a more passionate nature. At home she spends five hours writing letters, preparing testimony, drafting speeches and devouring all the information she can find on how and why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Giebler has joined hundreds of relatives of Flight 103 victims in an organized attempt to change Government and airline policies and win compensation for their loss. Embittered after countless run-ins with unresponsive and evasive officials, their early efforts to lobby for improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Nor has the European press lost its appetite for unraveling the Pan Am mystery. Since last summer, newspapers and magazines in Britain and Germany have bannered a disturbing mix of unsubstantiated charges and possibly valuable clues about the bombing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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