Word: certained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American $20, run Eastern Airlines and give the unions lots of money, or buy a fleet of Stealth B-2 bombers, the University cannot: a) renovate the stinking bathroom in your suite, b) pay junior faculty more since they won't be getting tenure anyway, c) subsidize extracurricular or certain academic programs...
Penn and Cornell never really challenged. Harvard shot out of the gate like a Red Sox fan in Yankee Stadium and never looked back. By the 500-meter mark, the Crimson's lead was certain and it was only a question of margin...
...significance of the new Congress of People's Deputies is not yet certain. The 1,500 candidates who were up for election on March 26 will be joined by 750 selected by public organizations ranging from the Communist Party to the Society of Stamp Collectors. They will select 544 of their number for a new Supreme Soviet. This new legislature, of which Gorbachev is expected to be president, will jostle for authority with the Communist Party's hierarchy, of which Gorbachev is General Secretary. He may thus be able (if his footwork remains agile) to use the new Supreme Soviet...
...have no difference of views with the party, just with certain people on the city and regional party committee...
...funny to watch Razhev and Karpov needle each other over dinner. I knew for certain that several years ago it would have been inconceivable that Razhev would be named director of the factory against the will of the city party committee. It would have been even more difficult to imagine that a collective of workers would have the right to elect...