Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone for the Midwest stop was set en route from the West Coast. As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood...
...foreign language taught in schools is English. Passion for American music is so strong that it sometimes revives détente: last June a rock extravaganza in Moscow was linked by satellite with a jazz concert in California. Natasha and some of her friends met seven U.S. college students en route from Kiev to Moscow last summer. Suspicion dissolved into excited questions on topics ranging from rock music to nuclear war. But the answers are not always trusted. Told that Americans do not have to serve in the Army any more, Leonid was skeptical...
...when Blacks arrived en masse in the nation's central cities these cities were in deep economic decline and had few opportunities open for their new citizens. Examples abound. Between 1948 and 1977 Chicago lost over 450,000 jobs in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail sectors but gained only about 50,000 jobs in the service sector. Since 1948, New York City lost 600,000 jobs in the same sectors-including about 450,000 jobs since 1967-while the offsetting gains in New York amounted to only 30,000 jobs in the service sector since 1967. The story is much...
Norwegian-born Audun Endestad, the newest U.S. citizen, barely made it. Leaving the Nordic ski team in Zurich, on a Monday morning, he paused in New York City en route to Salt Lake City, where he was sworn in thanks to a hurriedly signed special Senate bill in the works for about a year. Next, Endestad flew to San Francisco in quest of a passport, and from there he headed to Sarajevo, where he rushed directly from the airport to the stadium and dressed just in time for Tuesday's overture. Whew...
...taken refuge from the storm in a miserable, leaky hovel. Looking upon the unintelligible mass of bodies whose plight is so similar to our modern day "bag people," the audience finds new meaning in Lear's realization that when it rains, poor people get wet--"O, I have ta'en too little care of this!" the king exclaims...