Word: dateness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid dealing with our own lives. The prime example of this trend is Perspective's recent oral sex survey. Sure, we all would be interested to know how many Harvard students have oral sex regularly. But what about asking how many students have even gone out on a date...
Elections are the key to the party's -- and East Germany's -- future. They are scheduled for 1991, as required by the constitution, but the pace of change is pressing the country toward an earlier date, perhaps next spring. For the Communists, ironically, an early vote could prove a boon by keeping potential rivals from organizing effectively...
...protests posed the greatest threat to date to the rigid model of Communist government that has prevailed here since a Soviet-led invasion crushed the "Prague Spring" reform movement...
...perhaps the most authoritative survey to date, scientists say Alzheimer's may be up to twice as common as was previously thought. A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that as many as one in ten people over 65 and, astonishingly, nearly half of those over 85 may have the disease. That would raise the number of Americans thought to be afflicted from 2.5 million to 4 million. "I was astounded," said Dr. Eric Larson of the University of Washington, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "Still, as with any startling finding, it needs...
What happened in Berlin last week was a combination of the fall of the Bastille and a New Year's Eve blowout, of revolution and celebration. At the stroke of midnight on Nov. 9, a date that not only Germans would remember, thousands who had gathered on both sides of the Wall let out a roar and started going through it, as well as up and over. West Berliners pulled East Berliners to the top of the barrier along which in years past many an East German had been shot while trying to escape; at times the Wall almost disappeared...