Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he begins his tour of Poland and Hungary this weekend, President George Bush will seek to certify a new era emerging from these convulsions. For Poland and Hungary are where the cold war began 42 years ago. And when historians write about the implosion of Communism in the late 1980s, they will note that it likewise began when those two satellites meandered from the Soviet orbit...
...Supreme Court session which ended with the announcement of theWebster decision will go down in history as a marker of our times. The Court's decisions subtly chipped away at many of the gains made in the civil rights era--most obviously in its decisions to narrow the interpretation of affirmative action and, with its ruling in Webster, pave the way for state regulation of reproduction...
...star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher in 1988's Bull Durham, he found charm in cynicism and anchored...
...left by the two travelers, their visits separated by 26 years of history, were nearly as disparate as the directions from which they arrived. Whereas Kennedy's aim was to spread a message of resolve at the very height of the cold war, the Soviet leader proclaimed a new era in which East and West could peacefully share their common continent...
...fifth. Then it was too late." Edberg is only 23, but everyone in Paris felt a little older. "Chang's young," he said. "Maybe he doesn't think that much." By four months, Chang displaced two-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker as the youngest major champion of the modern era. With his charming, sidearm delivery, Becker, 21, said, "Almost-the-older-ones you have to call...