Word: augustness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlocked City Council last night reversed the stance it took in August and blocked indefinitely a plan to allow Stop and Shop Inc. to create an ultra-modern supermarket...
...wholesale price of AZT 20%, to $1.20 a pill. One reason the company is able to do so is that the potential market for the drug has grown substantially in recent weeks with the discovery that AZT can help a far larger group. A Government study released in August concluded that the drug, besides helping people who have AIDS, can also postpone the appearance of the disease in people who are infected by the AIDS virus but are not yet ill. Since no other antiviral drug has been approved to fight AIDS, the finding increases to 600,000 the number...
Anxiety and apprehension seem to pervade Moscow whenever Mikhail Gorbachev is out of town. But for much of August, with the Soviet President off on his annual vacation in the Crimea, the capital showed symptoms of panic. Conservative members of the Politburo were warning that the country could be slipping out of control. Government officials were speculating openly about the possibility of a coup. A rock group climbed the Soviet hit parade with a song whose refrain was "We are anticipating civil war." Arriving home, Gorbachev, looking tanned and vigorous after four weeks on the Black Sea shore, went straight...
...American League East dropped 24 of their first 36 games this spring, it seemed the epitaph for a talented but erratic team. Renewal began with a new manager (soft-spoken Cito Gaston) whose unflappable style helped inspire the midseason revival of brooding power hitter George Bell. The August acquisition of spark-plug centerfielder Mookie Wilson added on-the-field leadership. As Gaston, one of the two black managers in baseball, puts it, "If I wasn't sitting in the dugout, I'd buy a ticket to see Mookie play...
While a disappointment to some, De Greiff's resignation was not unexpected. Before visiting the U.S. in late August, she handed President Virgilio Barco Vargas an open-dated resignation. Barco requested that she stay on until he found a replacement. Last week he did, naming Communications Minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds as the interim Justice Minister. If Lemos Simmonds agrees to accept the post formally, he will be Colombia's ninth Justice Minister in three years...