Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...translation) exchanging contrary views and, for all intents and purposes, agreeing only to disagree. Then, in an unfortunate conclusion to the visit, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left her final meeting in Peking with China's senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, only to stumble face first on the broad stairs. The unintended symbolism of the spill in full view of television cameras was not missed. On her arrival in Hong Kong Sunday, on the last leg of a two-week Asian tour, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of local criticism that she had got off on the wrong foot...
...first public comment on the dispute--which drew national publicity this summer--Bok said in a broad-ranging interview Wednesday that he "would have become somewhat involved" had the Law School acceded to the BLSA's request...
...marked a watershed in the history of Israel and the surrounding region. Most immediately, the massacre made negotiations for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon more difficult, and the Arab nations, which link Israel with the U.S., may now be far less likely to respond to the broad peace initiative launched by President Reagan on Sept. 1. The massacre aroused sympathy and support for the cause of the Palestine Liberation Organization that the P.L.O., which itself attained power through terrorism, could not have hoped to achieve otherwise. American Jewish leaders lamented Israel's role, however indirect...
Anderson said SASC and other organizations would promote "a single radical candidate for chairman with backing from a broad base of groups." He added, "Jamie [Raskin] would make a good chairman...
...ability to understand and synthesize the viewpoints of conflicting groups in the Black community enabled him to gain broad based support. He had lived in Montgomery, Alabama for only a year when the arrest of Rosa Parks spurred Montgomery's Black leaders to call for a boycott of the city's buses. Just 26, King was an unlikely choice for the presidency of the organization formed to oversee the boycott. Yet he gained the position because as one observer put it, he could appeal to "both the masses and the classes," both the downtrodden majority and the affluent elite...