Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second reason concerns building renovations on the weekend of the conference: "On the basis of these logistical concerns, Associate Dean Cross called Ms. Murray the next day to inform her that we would be able to approve her request." Associate Dean Timothy Cross never brought up renovations during his call. "Harvard's reputation" appeared to be the sole reason for the rejection; "logistical concerns" were not even mentioned. When I inquired whether there was any other place in the University where the conference might be held, I received a monosyllabic response...
There was only one problem: Jakes reneged on his agreement with Gorbachev. That extraordinary double cross began the unraveling of Jakes's two-year rule. Through a variety of sources, TIME has pieced together an account of the final days of the repressive Jakes regime. It is not a sympathetic tale; in the end, Jakes had only his own poor judgment, panic and stubbornness to blame...
...suspects. The fight for blanket antiabortion legislation will be bruising, and many purely economic conservatives will want no part of it. But the question of Government funding of abortions unites laissez-faire and Old Testament moralists alike. Many other social issues, such as day care, lend themselves to similar cross-cultural anti-Government alliances. Junk-bond dealers and snake handlers agree in wanting Washington out of their lives. The Republican Party, of course, may turn tail on some or all of the social issues. But then, conservative diehards of every stripe have always regarded the G.O.P. as a painful necessity...
Respect for the people's national, state, spiritual and cultural identity is an indispensable condition for a steady international environment that Europe and the world now need to cross the historic watershed and attain a new period of peace...
...West. "I'm successful only if I can walk away from it and deal with who I really am." He aims to retreat to his sprawling farm in Vermont, where he has built a private Stonehenge, a Jeffersonian library in the middle of the woods, a Japanese teahouse. Cross-cultural follies...