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Word: assisters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retort, correctly, that while Viet Nam is halfway around the world and of debatable strategic importance to Washington, Central America is virtually next door, an area where U.S. interests are obvious. Moreover, the amounts Washington is spending to help the government of El Salvador defeat leftist guerrillas and to assist the contra rebels fighting the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua are pittances compared with the sums lavished on South Viet Nam even before the direct U.S. military intervention there. Still, the Administration every now and then feels obliged to deny that it has any plan or desire to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Lessons From a Lost War | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...months, AT&T has bombarded consumers with an advertising campaign designed to convince them to pick AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T operators encourage callers to choose their company with each collect call they assist, while actor Cliff Robertson (who one AT&T executive described as "literally dripping with integrity") declares to TV viewers that "the more you hear, the better we sound...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Thoughtless Choice | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...correctly asserted its right as a community to determine what risks it is willing to take. This is not to say that ADL's research does not have some redeeming social value. By testing-hazardous substances, ADL is trying to develop ways to detoxify nerve gas agents and assist in the safe removal of the nation's chemical warfare arsenal. In addition, increased knowledge about chemical warfare agents has led to medical advances in treating various cancers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shape Up or Ship Out | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...many Black South Africans today are dying in their struggle. Counted among the leaders in the movements to end apartheid in America were cohege students, of which I was one. It fills my heart with joy to hear of and see students today making such great commitments to assist Black South Africans thousands of miles away in their struggle. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asserter "Injustices anywhere is injustice everywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jackson's Letter To President Bok | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

Keffer, a 5-ft., 5 in. freshman shattered Harvard's single season assist record by dishing out 28 on the year (five per game). The old mark, held by Caryn Carry, was 93. --J.F.P

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: A Season for Building | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

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