Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow mourners, I will leave it to the historians to debate exactly what "symbolic" means. What is not debatable is that a political movement that can only generate "symbolic" protests that weren't meant to succeed is a dead movement...
...appeared to undergo another setback with last month's decision of major U.S. banks, led by Citicorp, to write off sizable portions of their < Third World loan portfolios. As a result of that move, many economics experts now think the so-called Baker Plan for developing economies is essentially dead. The Treasury Secretary, however, remains sanguine. He lauded Citicorp's debt write-off, for example, as a "positive" step. One reason: the approach reduces the likelihood of wholesale default by debtor nations...
While the architects of U.S. foreign policy struggled to shape their strategy, the widows and families of the slain Stark crewmen struggled to put the tragedy behind them. Last week the remains of 35 of the 37 dead sailors arrived at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base. Under a bruised sky, pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffins from the belly of a cargo plane and into a concrete hangar. After a brief memorial service marked by quiet sobs, the coffins were shipped to grave sites in small towns such as Greeleyville, S.C., and Fitchburg, Mass., all far, far away from...
...Prize for Music; this month his Symphony No. 2 received its world premiere in San Francisco. Prestigious as it is, the prize only certifies what many in musical circles were already aware of. The symphony, however, boldly proclaims an important voice in an art form that has been declared dead more often than the Broadway musical...
...making with the religious parties, including a Likud promise to support legislation requiring overseas conversions to Judaism to have the approval of the Israeli chief rabbinate, a measure certain to antagonize many U.S. Jews. The Labor- Likud marriage, huffed Rubinstein, was a "two-headed monster ((that)) has reached a dead...