Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central conflict in the novel is between Maggie's efforts to force her version of happiness on her family and their resistance to her interfering. Maggie fools Jesse and Fiona into meeting again. As usual, Maggie paints things as she would like them to be rather than as they are. She expects others to accept her fantasy. Tyler continually impresses on us that Maggie's gratification lies in the possibility of re-uniting Jesse and Fiona, somehow giving them what she feels that they, and indirectly Maggie herself, deserve...
...extraordinary meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee made the biggest changes in the Soviet hierarchy since Gorbachev became party general secretary in 1985. Top party ranks were virtually stripped of appointees made by his predecessors...
...member policy-making Central Committee also named Vadim A. Medvedev a full Politburo member and gave him responsibility for ideology...
This week's Central Committee meeting and the parliament session were called in haste, indicating Gorbachev may have decided to act before opposition to the personnel changes could gel. The meetings brought officials like Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov scurrying back to Moscow from trips abroad...
...official brought to Moscow by Gorbachev, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, former ambassador to the United States, also retired as a secretary of the party Central Committee...