Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having served one's country abroad, each discharged soldier should have the right to bring home a submachine gun as "small recompense for the isolation, the boredom and the risk of overseas duty." So argues the National Rifle Association in a letter to drug czar William Bennett, who championed the...
The first real crack in the Communist facade appeared early last week when Kiszczak announced that he was handing over the task of forming a government to Roman Malinowski, president of the Peasants' Party. Jaruzelski never asked Malinowski to form a government; perhaps he calculated that Malinowski would have been...
Beach volleyball was once part of the laid-back Southern California style -- a bunch of parking-lot attendants and cabana boys devoting their spare time to fun in the sun. Today the game is a hard-charging sport, complete with big- bucks sponsors, a 29-tournament tour of 13 states...
Beach-volleyball stars themselves were the ones who pulled their sport up from the tide line. Back in the 1970s, tournaments, such as they were, could offer top players no more than a free pair of swim trunks, dinner in a local restaurant and perhaps a date with the winner...
Central to their success is a lucrative contract with the Miller Brewing Co. The deal reportedly provides most of the more than $2 million in prize money offered this season. Miller sponsors 20 of the A.V.P. tournaments. All matches are arranged by the association in cities that express an interest...