Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next 20 years. Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. There are worse things to be, I suppose . . . lazy and poor comes to mind...
...party in opposition to the Communists. Witnesses were shocked at how dramatically Sakharov had aged lately, as he made his faltering way to the podium around 6 p.m. Still, there was nothing irresolute about his short impassioned speech. He defended his earlier, controversial call for a nationwide strike to end the Communists' institutionalized monopoly of Soviet political life. "We cannot take responsibility for what the party is doing," he declared. "It's leading the country into a crisis by dragging its feet on perestroika...
...end of the '80s, Cruise, 27, is the movies' biggest star, with nothing but promise on the horizon. Just ask two masters he has apprenticed with: Dustin Hoffman, the decade's most lauded actor, and Paul Newman, the last golden exemplar of Hollywood star quality. "There's no sense of a crest in Tom," says Hoffman, who won an Oscar as Cruise's brother in Rain Man. "His talent is young, his body is young, his spirit is young. He's a Christmas tree -- he's lit from head to toe." Newman, who played Cruise's mentor in The Color...
Some lawmakers have made vacation plans for the week between Christmas and New Year's Day and do not plan to cancel them, a move that could crimp efforts to bring a tax increase bill to the floor by the year's end...
...First, we need to discuss with all the parties concerned the implications of change in Central Europe, and also of change in Germany, because the two are related. We cannot end the division of Europe without also, in some fashion, ending the division of Germany. We are past the day when the future of Europe could be shaped either by us or by the Soviets alone, or even by us with the West Europeans. We now need to talk in equal depth with the Russians, with our allies, the West Europeans, and with our friends, the Central Europeans...