Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own problems," he said. "The people have lived these days like a celebration." Peru was the Pope's last South American stop, and the spectacular settings were hardly more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Some 4,000 people have been killed, and human rights groups claim that 1,000 more have "disappeared...
...send Congress a bill to begin dismantling the whole structure of crop loans, cash subsidies and acreage restrictions that has built up around American agriculture over the past half-century. It would begin a five-year transition to a system under which farmers would plant as much as they chose and sell their crops for whatever price they could get, with the Government providing only minimal insurance against disaster...
Most residents polled at the City's two cable hearings in January chose Cable Plus over the other competitors, mostly because of flexibility in programming and services of a local cable firm owned by subscribers...
...collected and read his published works many times over, and he frequently quotes the wartime British Prime Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of some note. Two years after Weinberger became Defense Secretary, he chose to schedule a speech at Westminster College, the tiny Missouri school where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" address in 1946. Though he employs a speechwriting staff of four, Weinberger insisted on writing much of the speech himself, including its most memorable passage. "We are perhaps in danger of becoming...
Unlike Walt Rostow, who worked for Lyndon Johnson and was not welcomed back at M.I.T., and Henry Kissinger, who chose, because of faculty opposition, not to return to Harvard, Jeane Kirkpatrick will be returning to academe. Her re- entry at Georgetown University as a teacher and thinker will no doubt create a few ripples. Perhaps her greatest legacy will be the rebirth of the idea that after an election America needs help from every quarter...