Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groundbreaking producer of small classics like the Nash Rambler, in competition with what Romney called the "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" of Detroit's Big Three. After Romney's departure, the firm tried to compete head to head with the Big Three, with increasingly dismal results. The company's last big coup came in 1970, when it bought Kaiser-Jeep, the manufacturer of the descendants of those rugged vehicles that become famous for carting around the American military during World...
...Dragon Lady in the now defunct comic strip Terry and the Pirates was voluptuous and deadly. Neither of those adjectives applies to Nancy Reagan. But after she was widely credited with organizing a coup by telephone against former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, the First Lady was depicted last week as a power-hungry manipulator more devious than any cartoon creature...
...most sensitive stop on Shevardnadze's mission was Indonesia. More than 100,000 Communists were killed in 1965 by forces led by General Suharto, then the top military commander, after an attempted Communist coup. The Communist Party is still banned in the country. One senior Indonesian diplomat noted the wariness: "We are aware that the Soviets never give up in their goals to widen their influence. Therefore we will be cautious...
...will be able to raise enough signatures andraise student awareness enough that the Universitywill change," COUP member Amy Allina '88 said...
...Soviet side, they cite Brezhnev's support for communist revolutions in Indochina, the 1973 Egyptian and Syrian attack on Israel, Cuban involvement in Angola and the Marxist coup in Afghanistan as examples of "unilateral" actions. And for the U.S.? Only America's exclusion of the Soviet Union from the Middle East peace process...