Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only 27 miles north of embattled Seoul, across the 38th parallel, is another Korea, in every sense an opposite to the turbulent, economically dynamic South. Hunkered behind miles of barbed wire and minefields, Communist North Korea is a constant, sometimes threatening presence in South Korean life. Spartan, plodding, more regimented than all but a few other Communist nations, it seems to act with one corporate mind. That mind belongs to Kim Il Sung, 75, the "Great Leader" who has been whipping North Korea into a model Communist state for 39 years. Kim's stable despotism is backed...
...relentless refrain in her head: "Who can I trust to care for my child?" She tried everything, from leaving Peter at the homes of other mothers to handing him over to her police-officer husband at the station-house door when they worked alternating shifts. With their schedules in constant flux, there were snags every step of the way. Curtin was more fortunate than most workers: police- department policy allows a year of unpaid "hardship" leave for child care. She decided to invoke that provision...
Unaccustomed to such a hands-on director, the actors at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival were perplexed at first, afraid that the boss might stifle their creativity. "I should have heard those lines, and I didn't," was his constant complaint during rehearsals of Broadway, a melodrama he had first directed in 1926. But then they remembered the name behind that stern voice. "Hey," said one young actor, "this is George Abbott! We know it's going to work...
Wilson's year at Parkway West was not just a Back to the Future nostalgia trip. Her constant companion was a video camera, and she is now assembling her footage into a 30- to 45-minute videotape for the class of '87. Parkway West is just one of a growing number of schools that have discovered a new twist on a venerable senior-year tradition: the video yearbook...
This staff member attributed the heightened support to the organizers' constant contact with employees. "They persisted week after week, and after a while we said, 'What's the story, tell me about...