Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East European countries. Increasingly aware of the strength they can wield in open demonstrations, many East Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians seem to be growing more restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders to cling to their old jobs, or to any jobs. Yet the protesters also seem intent on bringing about open confrontations, and this has thrown into question just how orderly life in these countries will remain...
There is a shabby, Old World familiarity about East Berlin that those who have lived there all their lives cling to -- at least for the moment. "We have a culture -- theater, opera, community -- the other side doesn't have," says the woman on the train, the bright lights of West Berlin now behind her. "Our stores are not empty." She is 34, a technician for the state television network. Until November, she was last in the West when she was six. This night she has returned to West Berlin to go to a concert with a friend, her fourth visit...
...just like the game against Colgate, the Crimson was unable to cling to its fragile intermission advantage...