Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even why the civilization chose to settle in this valley's anyone's guess. There are no outstanding military, agricultural, or other features that would appear to make it advantageous...
...Kohl. After the eight-year decline and eventual death of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviets clearly had a stake in demonstrating that the capacity of the nation's leadership was not again in question because of the failing health of their supreme leader. The West Germans, for their part, chose to believe that no rebuff was intended. Still, as one Bonn official remarked, "In Moscow, you never can be sure...
...money. But his tireless preaching in favor of "synergetic" methods of seeking solutions to mankind's problems brought him a wide following. During the last two decades of his life he became a favorite of the hippies of the 1960s, the environmentalists of the 1970s and all who chose to believe with him that "we're at the point where humanity has the option to make...
...follow in paternal footsteps. Timothy B. Robertson, 28, has just been made a vice president of Pat (700 Club) Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Another TV preacher, Rex Humbard, has four children in his operation. Billy Graham's son Franklin, 30, is also a preacher, but he chose his own course and now heads Samaritan's Purse, a humanitarian agency working overseas. His father, though, sometimes muses that Franklin might prove useful some day in the Billy Graham organization...
...light . . . and they did not think of leaving." Carver's tale is distinguished not only for its deceptively simple, ultimately haunting style, but for its history. The original version was published in a collection of stories two years ago. Carver might have let it languish there; instead he chose to rework the material, enriching and enlivening it in the process. For years, obituaries have been written for the American short story; Carver's patient craftsmanship shows how vital the genre remains...