Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armed the mineworkers, traditionally the most leftist group in Bolivia, with rifles and organized them into local militia units. And, correctly assessing the potential of the dormant masses in the countryside, MNR representatives moved into the towns and villages around La Paz and Cochabamba to awake the peasants to an awareness of the injustices they had suffered for so long. Were the peasants to continue to work as slaves, the MNR asked, to put meat on the tables of the hacendados, the large estate owners, while they themselves had to eat potatoes...
...been dormant for the last year and a half only because student protest at Harvard has also been dormant. The committee isn't any better now that it was in 1971, when it was expelling students in closed hearings and denying them appeals. Students must continue to remind the Faculty how unfair the CRR really...
...gathering, Cheatham said that the new complex had first been proposed in 1970, and that the idea had been dormant until he took office...
...sentiment exists, but it's dormant. We don't yet know whether it's a sleeping baby or a sleeping giant," Vaught said Thursday...
...Eximbank does grant credits for the pipeline, an economic tie that has been dormant for almost ten years would be restored. Even more important, the pipeline revenues could encourage Egypt to continue its trend toward less ideological policies. With more funds, it will be able to resist the blandishments of oil-soaked, militantly anti-American Libya, upon which it has been heavily dependent for aid. Indeed, the line might even attract some business from a competitor: the Israelis' Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline. Still, the U.S. and Egypt are playing down the political possibilities. Egypt's government-controlled press...