Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Created in 1974, the Legal Services Corporation was under fire throughout most of the Reagan era, Wallace said. The former president proposed its abolition during his first seven years in office, and it was saved annually only after Congress insisted on funding...
...dictator's hands came to Medvedev's Moscow apartment to bring him the unpublished memoirs they had squirreled away in despair. Victims of the Great Terror and their friends and relatives told him of their personal ordeals. A host of young researchers volunteered to hunt for Stalin-era documents in the official archives to which Medvedev had been denied access. After the author's twin brother Zhores, a distinguished biochemist and author, was exiled in 1973, he managed to send Roy from Britain scores of important works of Western Sovietology that were unavailable in Russia...
...last week's North Carolina case, a former teller at a Winston-Salem credit union sought to use a Reconstruction-era statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
...that minor eruption paled next to the outburst of violence in Uzbekistan, the fourth largest republic, located in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. The worst outbreak of ethnic mayhem in the modern Soviet era began on the night of June 3, in the city of Fergana (pop. 190,000), 150 miles southeast of Tashkent, as bands of native Uzbeks staged a series of brutal attacks on minority Meskhetian Turks, who were deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin. Most of the 190,000 displaced Meskhetians settled in Uzbekistan, a region that did not always welcome their presence...
Precisely what touched off the violence remained unclear, despite thorough glasnost-era reporting by the Soviet press and television. Some stories said the fighting was touched off by a dispute over the price of strawberries at a local market, while others maintained that the attacks were in retaliation for a fight last month in the tiny market town of Kuvasi...