Word: endedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps it was an especially large dose of Christmas spirit that moved my dorm mates, or perhaps they just didn't want to disappoint a fellow student who was obviously very committed to a cause. In any event, both of my friends ended up adding their names to the hundreds...
Television feeds this tendency to personalize great issues, and it permits everyone, not just Presidents, to play: Gorbachev came into America's living rooms for a chat last week, followed by twelve aspiring Presidents and then the old master, Reagan. The whole nation got a chance to size everyone up...
Five days earlier a parallel siege ended at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La., where 998 Cuban detainees held 26 prison employees. Standing in the back of a pickup truck, Miami's Cuban-born Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman was driven slowly past the center's wire fences. "My brothers...
Thus ended the so-called war of the embassies, the diplomatic standoff in which the French diplomat and the Iranian interpreter were held for five months as virtual prisoners in their embassies. Only 48 hours before the . exchange, Premier Jacques Chirac's government had won the release of two French...
But before the first round ended in late April, the new General Secretary began to assert himself -- subtly at first, then spectacularly. American experts have often said the U.S. comes to the negotiating table as though arms control were a game of poker while the Soviet Union plays it as...