Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admire the individuals mentioned in your story "Risking It All" [Aug. 29]. Their quest for thrills has been fulfilled by living a dream, a fantasy or a desire. Our lives are too easy, too habitual, too systematic and often too dull. How gratifying that there are still a lot of Huckleberry Finns...
...regularly read most of the West German dailies and periodicals you perceive as anti-American [Aug. 29]. Their criticism of American policies, institutions and attitudes is hardly different from what I read in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and, yes, TIME. Is there, then, anti-American bias in a large segment of the American press? Or are the German media being asked to confine their criticism to their own affairs and those of the Soviet bloc? I see no such noble restraint in dealing with West Germany's imperfections on the part of most U.S. newspapers...
...Aussie living in Europe, and nothing has given me greater pride in my country than reading about how fearful the Yanks are of being defeated in the America's Cup [Aug. 29]. The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club...
...Ohio, a coalition incorporated as SET (Stop Excessive Taxation), proposed two amendments to the state constitution. One would repeal all taxes enacted since January 1983. The second would mandate that all tax bills require a three-fifths majority approval in the legislature. By Aug. 10, volunteers all over the state had collected more than 525,000 signatures for each proposal, about 200,000 beyond what is needed to get both measures on the November ballot...
...strongman declared martial law in 1972, Aquino spent 7½A years in Philippine jails on charges of murder, illegal possession of firearms and subversion, and three more years of exile in the U.S. Ignoring innumerable threats and an official death sentence against him, Aquino returned home on Aug. 21. Within 30 seconds of his arrival at Manila International Airport, he was murdered by a single shot from an assassin's .357 Magnum revolver...