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Word: ares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are, however, important and auspicious differences between 1848 and 1989. In 1848 multinational empires dominated Europe. The revolutionaries wanted to dismember them, but could not agree on where the new boundaries should be drawn. Such questions as how far Germany should extend and whether there should be an independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: In Europe, History Repeats Itself | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

When visitors arrive for an approved visit with Mandela, they drive through the prison farm's main gate and across its rustic grounds until they reach a fenced-in compound. After registering at a guard station, leaving cameras behind, guests are ushered into the parlor of a three-bedroom stucco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunch With Nelson | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Pity the poor postalworker, however hard that may be for the millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Signs are they haven't done so. Despite a $585 million high-tech makeover for the Postal Service over the past two years, the odds have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

With the hostility has come violence. Hundreds of punches are being delivered along with the mail: the past three years brought 355 attacks by workers on supervisors and 183 by bosses on workers. Last August, John Taylor, a letter carrier in Escondido, Calif., went on a rampage with a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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