Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fallacy of the Soviet domination thesis is easy to see. In the minds of U.S. conservatives, the still untrustworthy Soviets instigate the restructuring of Communist societies in their own sphere of influence while fervently supporting the victories of orthodox Marxist rebels thousands of miles away...
...have a library named after him. I wish some renowned figure like him would come along to save the Harvard library where I work. If only we named the Harvard Institute of International Development Library after somebody famous, then no University official would dare try to throw it away...
...would also admit that the journals and books I am throwing away daily are not classics of literature. But what about the panic-stricken undergraduates and research assistants who can't have the New Delhi Economic and Agricultural Policy Journal because I just threw it in the dumpster? I feel so sorry for them...
...college to mirror a nightmare attributed to British philosopher Bertrand Russell. He once dreamed that he was in a giant library watching a library assistant update the stacks. As she walked through with a bucket, she picked up volumes, glanced at them for a moment, and then threw them away. Russell was particularily alarmed when she tossed out the last remaining copy of his Principia Mathematica, a brilliant work on mathematics and logic...
...reason? The possible formation of another intensely nationalistic Germany. Such a development would destabilize the international balance of power, disrupt the European economic community and undermine Germany's movement away from its tainted past...