Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some students agree that it is important for drugs to be exorcized from inner cities. But if students want their attitudes to be taken seriously in inner-city communities, they should take an equally bold stand against the casual use of less dangerous drugs. Someone who says it is wrong for a 20-year-old economically disadvantaged gang member to deal crack as a way to earn money, but overlooks a privileged Harvard sophomore who buys and sells hash for his or her personal use, is being hypocritical...
...assist the East German refugees in their quest to begin new lives in a capitalist nation. To open its borders, Budapest suspended key paragraphs of a 1969 bilateral treaty between Hungary and East Germany that forbids the unauthorized passage of citizens of either country into third countries. Budapest's bold maneuver provided the West with a vivid glimpse of fractures within the Warsaw Pact -- and raised unnerving questions about the refugee tide that might ensue if the Iron Curtain was completely dismantled...
What a wonderful word, Europhoria. Western Europe seems to have rediscovered the political will to advance the stalled process of economic integration and further the old dream of Continental unity. In a bold venture eyed warily by the rest of the globe, the twelve members of the European Community* have pledged to unite their markets by Dec. 31, 1992, creating the world's largest market and trading bloc. West Europeans have few illusions about their ability to create a United States of Europe. Even within individual countries, regional rivalries are still pronounced, and the Continent's cultural diversity will continue...
...took to wearing my bold "Harvard Hockey, National Champs" shirt through crowded malls and busy streets. Like single-color 10-foot high tapestries of modern art, this shirt "confronts" the viewer. Any true University of Minnesota fan would crump at the sight of it, I reasoned, and then I could move in for the kill...
...lead to a breakthrough all the way to the English Channel. The Allied armies would be encircled and cut off; all France would lie open. Manstein's memorandums never reached Hitler, but the two men met at a dinner, and the Fuhrer was so impressed by the general's bold plan that he ordered it adopted...