Word: ending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common destination. It makes sense to operate a shuttle from the Quad to the Science Center at five minutes to ten. It makes less sense to run an all-night shuttle service for a few scattered groups of people. Most of the night, the buses would drive from one end of campus to the other, empty...
...cell I was alone but guarded all the time by a ((white)) warder. He would make comments and become very hostile when he saw certain things about the A.N.C. on TV. I then took a chance to talk to him, to educate him. In the end, he understood...
...been impossible for reporters to convey the full flavor of what life was like for 6 million residents of the Bay Area on a night they will never forget. "The instinct of journalists is to have it tidy," says Brokaw. "In this case there were many loose ends even at the end of the night...
...understand when it and his journey are all but over. He cannot forget Lord Darlington, dead now three years, the gentleman whom he served for so long. He defends his late master against the initially unspecified "utter nonsense" that has been written and spoken about him since the end of World War II. And he fusses over the attributes that create a "great" butler, finally coming up with a definition that satisfies him: "And let me now posit this: 'dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits...
...mice. Now the Chinese leader is determined that his cats will be red. Four months after his crackdown on the prodemocracy movement, the first tocsin for a "purification" of the Communist Party has been sounded. The Beijing municipal party headquarters announced that all its members must reregister by the end of 1990, and those deemed "hostile and antiparty" will be purged. Diplomats estimate that as many as 50,000 of the party's members in the capital might be expelled. Party officials elsewhere fear the campaign will soon include all 48 million members nationwide...