Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late, bittersweet autumn of a career that has spanned nearly half a century, French President Francois Mitterrand, 77, faces a wintry political future. Constitutionally barred from running for re-election, with his Socialist Party in disarray and repudiated at the polls, he must vacate the Elysee Palace, after 14 years in office, when his current seven-year term expires in May 1995. But Mitterrand seems determined to leave power with his reputation intact and with his massive place in postwar French -- and European -- history clearly established...
With reviews like that, Detroit is so enthused about its prospects that it is positioning the new class of compacts as the centerpiece of an old- fashioned, '50s- and '60s-style all-out autumn advertising blitz. Between now and Super Bowl Sunday, the automakers will spend an unprecedented $1 billion on ads, commercials, giveaways and other promotional stunts introducing all makes and models; more than $400 million will be devoted to touting the appealing new compacts. Says Steve Lyons, general-marketing manager of the Ford Division, which will spend $100 million selling the Contour alone: "This is the biggest launch...
...bring about change in a modern society, an insight that proved prophetic of the year that followed. The speeches, which focused not on programs and policies but on the family-centered values that strengthen the country, were well received and helped his approval ratings reach record levels last autumn...
Guess whose turn it is to preside over the U.N.'s pre-eminent Security Councilcome autumn? That's right: Rwanda, where the unstable Hutu-led government is accused of committing thousands of atrocities. Extraordinarily, even as diplomats discussed a special U.N. tribunal today to investigate genocide in the central African country, the embarrassed Security Council met privately to find a way out of its predicament. The result: some calendar tinkering that moves Rwanda out of the rotating council presidency in September, when the high-profile General Assembly convenes and the world spotlight is on the U.N.parpar
...Harvard, it means that the renovation of the Yard--a project costing about $65 million total--is nearing completion. In fact, when autumn arrives, Harvard will only have one more summer of scaffolding and dust sheets--and then, believe it or not, the Yard will be done...