Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After I realized they were gone, I ran to the phone on the end of Holworthy" to call the police, the victim said. Harvard University police arrived within minutes, said the victim, but the assailants had escaped...
...into question a central assumption of U.S. trade strategy: that the weak dollar will continue to shrink the deficit by making U.S. exports cheaper overseas and imported goods more expensive for American shoppers. But U.S. imports just keep on rising. That partly reflects what some economists have begun to call "hysteresis" -- a fancy term for the notion that new habits, like old ones, are hard to break. Americans have learned to love Japanese cars, TVs and videocassette recorders, and are reluctant to give them up, regardless of price...
...question of Brown's relationship with Jackson comes up. At a small meeting in a Richmond hotel, a woman squirms on the couch, apologizes, then blurts it out with a nervous smile. At a Chicago forum, a man reads the question from a page prepared in advance. They often call it simply "the Jesse question," the perception that Brown is Jackson's candidate or is obligated...
Ironically, blame might rest with the success of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. The call for openness has given rise to a crescendo of grumbling that has become grist for news reports calling attention to the shortage of consumer goods. Public debate has also offered hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...
...opening his presidency with a call to altruism, Bush turns away from the selfishness of the Reagan era -- and begins looking for a way out of his budget bind. -- An interview with the 41st President. -- Reagan's last day: Who gets the nuclear credit card? -- Dan Quayle goes to school. -- Tensions between blacks and immigrants underlie Miami's latest uprising...