Word: bridgeses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The plan comes at a time when the emptiness of much of the national agenda has become painfully obvious. Like a teenager promising a night on the town without a dime in his pocket, the Bush Administration is beginning to look a little silly issuing long reports outlining national problems...
The real burden fell on Nicaragua. The U.S. strategy proved excruciatingly slow and extremely expensive, and it inflicted the most pain on the wrong people. The past ten years have savaged the country's civilians, not its comandantes. Since 1985 Washington has strangled Nicaraguan trade with an embargo. It has...
When the Soviets invited the National Symphony to make its first visit to Moscow, they were also inviting a conductor whom they had stripped of his citizenship in 1978 for "unpatriotic activity." So the Supreme Soviet last month voted to restore that citizenship. Rostropovich considered delaying his return until Solzhenitsyn...
Special-interest groups are already lined up to grab whatever savings result from defense cuts. Supply-siders will argue for more tax reductions. Others will want to spend more on the homeless, education or the war on drugs. States and local jurisdictions are bidding for repairs in the country's...
"They are like cockroaches -- ugly, numerous, been around a long time and hard to kill," said a U.S. analyst in Washington last week. "They" are the Securitate, the Ceausescu dictatorship's ever present and dreaded security apparatus, whose members fought savagely for several days to keep the tyrant in power...