Word: dual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradox of this truly dangerous situation lies in its dual character. On the one hand, long-standing historical forces play the major role behind the crisis. However, individuals in bank board rooms throughout the West made conscious decisions in the '70s to make choices which seem, in retrospect, to be foolhardy risks. The actions of a very small number of bank executives have put the American people in a real bind. Hopefully these same bankers will find their own was out of the mess without a major social and governmental shake up, like the Crash...
...Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) was profoundly aware of the astonishing growth and power of the U.S. press in the 20th century. In 1947 he said, "Today nearly every American's mind-and soul-is directly and daily affected by the press." Luce believed that journalism had a dual purpose: "A service first ... of news and comment on public affairs. And second, a service of culture, a service of food for the imagination and the feelings and sensitivities of millions of people...
...Party Leader Erich Honecker last October, deploring both the NATO deployment and the threatened "retaliatory" deployment of new Soviet short-range missiles in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. In the letter, Lutheran clergy and parishioners from a suburb of Dresden declared themselves "horrified by the very thought" of the dual deployment, and urged Honecker to support a Scandinavian call for a European nuclear-free zone. Open criticism of both sides in the missile dispute has become a regular feature of local and district meetings of Protestant churches in East Germany, provoking fitful government repression...
What the Crimson had done in those last six years included an amazing 58-1 record on en route to six straight Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming (EISL) dual meet championships, five consecutive Eastern Seaboard Championships and collegiate swimming's longest active winning streak, until Navy pulled the biggest streak attack since Pearl Harbor...
That fact didn't used to bother the aquamen, though. Even as teams geared to knock off the powerful Harvard squad, the Crimson responded with clutch victories. In 10 years, Harvard has now dropped just five dual meets, including the last...