Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the back cover: a call to "support Radcliffe College" in order to "continue opening doors for women." The "new president," Linda Wilson, announces a "new agenda," one that will "enlarge Radcliffe's contribution to the public policy forum" as well as "expand research and scholarship about women...
...rest of the first period featured more penalties than scoring, with Harvard Co-Captain Char Joslin being called for holding at the 10:17 mark of the period. However, Bowdoin's man-up situation was only 15 seconds old when defender Maggie O'Sullivan joined Joslin in the box on a tripping call, evening the teams at four-on-four...
...atmospherics and rhetoric along the Potomac became more appreciative during the summer, but what Marxists (there are still a few left in Moscow) call the "objective realities" of U.S. policy remained pretty much unchanged. A few days before the Pentagon cuts, an adviser to Gorbachev seemed to be expressing his boss's exasperation: "Our leader is presiding, with incredible boldness and at incredible risk, over the perestroika not just of our own country, but of the entire international order, and your leader keeps saying, 'Thanks, good luck, and have a nice day.' What do we have...
...former Prime Minister Lubomir Strougal, 65, who was replaced last year by Ladislav Adamec, 63. Over the past six months, Strougal, who is still a member of the Central Committee, and Adamec had conspired to take advantage of just such a moment. They agreed that Adamec would publicly call for reform while Strougal used his influence within the Central Committee to oust Jakes and other hard-liners in the Politburo. ) Strougal rallied a core group of 20 moderates within the Central Committee to their cause. "In the main hall, everything looked calm," says a participant. "Behind doors all around...
...post as leader of the state -- and his entire Politburo and Central Committee stepped down as well. Asked about German unification at Sunday's press conference, Gorbachev said some questions must be left for "history" to decide and cautioned against doing "anything to accelerate these changes artificially." That call for prudence seemed ironic coming from the statesman who had done more than any other in this half of the century to speed up the process of history, including the transformation of Germany...