Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though a member of the seven-nation Warsaw Pact, Rumania does not permit stationing of Soviet troops or nuclear weapons on its soil. Ceauşescu declared that the European countries "bear a special responsibility for peace in Europe." Kohl, however, refused to endorse the visitor's call for opening U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks to participation by other countries...
...current bank notes were around for so long they had become an easy target for counterfeiters. The new ones will be tougher to fake. They each have a spray of colors, 15 for the 10,000 yen note alone, and larger watermarks. For the blind, they will bear their value in braille. One problem with the new bills is that vending machines, where the Japanese buy everything from railroad tickets to whisky, will have to be converted to accept the new currency...
...taken over by the middling-South Carolina, Kentucky or Washington. In its first five games, Alabama was able to beat only quaint Southwestern Louisiana, but then upset Penn State before losing to Tennessee. As bad starts go, this one went back to 1957, the year before the coming of Bear Bryant. About a month before Coach Bryant died in 1983, former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described his two seasons' journey, effectively speaking for Gerry Faust as well, though Notre Dame's fourth-year...
...1970s, liberals and conservatives alike exaggerated what arms control could accomplish, loading it down with burdens of hope it could not bear or blame it did not deserve, and expecting it to work wonders by itself...Arms control is not a substitute for defense. It is defense conducted by other means...
...exhausting-218 tribal objects from Africa, North America and the Pacific playing counterpoint to 147 modern ones. In organizing the show, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, has set out to unravel a knotty subject by bringing all the resources of current scholarship to bear on it while still leaving the viewer exhilarated by the beauty and intensity of the works. About four years in preparation, the exhibition is the cap of Rubin's career-one which, in recent years, produced MOMA's great shows of Picasso and late Cezanne. It involved close detective...