Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene is South Central Los Angeles, but it could as easily be Detroit, Grand Rapids or Kansas City. A young white male driving a 1989 Thunderbird slowly circles one of the worst blocks in the city. He nods toward a group of blacks hanging out at a corner. As his smartly dressed date whirs up her electric window, a clamoring pack of drug dealers surrounds the car. Money is hastily exchanged for a tiny cellophane bag of off-white crystals. The car peels away, fleeing the inner city, headed toward suburban safety. But the driver of the Thunderbird, his supply...
...handful of diverse nations suddenly iron- curtained off from their neighbors and force-fed an unwanted ideology. Soviet dominion over the region may someday be regarded as a parenthetical pause (1945-89) that left economic scars but had little permanent impact on the culture and history of Central Europe...
...Ernest E. Monrad '51, the alumni head of Harvard's Boston fundraising efforts, on the extensive information which Harvard's central development office provides about possible alumni givers...
Jacoby's appointment comes in the midst of these attempts to reach out to the undergraduate community, and Wilson says she hopes the new position will be a central one in helping set a direction for her fledgling administration...
...announcement was a blow to the Central American peace process and the Aug. 7 agreements that called for disbanding the Contras in exchange for moves toward democratization in Nicaragua...