Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Centro Presente has also been participating in activities "to change the basic structures which are at the root of unjust immigration laws," Cummins says. Centro workers have targeted American foreign policy in Central American countries and domestic immigration laws which comply with these policies as their main problems, she says...
...Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy, tactics and senior leadership. Their basic military techniques are rather poor." Even a specially commissioned Administration report concludes that the contras are so weak and divided, so poorly trained and led, that money alone is not likely to revitalize them...
...mysterious plot, Mozart has written some of the most thrilling and beautiful music of any of his operas, which the Lowell House Company attempted to deliver with zeal to its small audience Thursday night. Three majestic chords begin and also end the overture which musically combines all the basic thoughts and conceptions of the opera. The playing throughout the opera was erratic, though punctuated by a few inspired musical moments...
Provost, like many Harvard directors, misses at least one basic of direction. Although movement is well choreographed in some scenes, in others actors wander about with stutter steps as they tentatively proceed to purposeless end points...
...basic priority was to play right away when I got to college," Blair says...