Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bender and her cohorts say that approving Proposition 1-2-3 would not even help tenants purchase their apartments. Proponents of the referendum argue that the apartments would be sold perhaps as much as 50 percent below the market price because each apartment would have only one possible buyer. But a study sponsored this summer by those opposed to Proposition 1-2-3 concluded that significant discounts are unrealistic...
...Meyer insists that there is nothing wrong with the intent of the third point in its original form, even if it is unworkable...
Perhaps the strangest entry in the 1989 council race will not even be on the ballot. Known as "Egg," he says he will wage a semi-humorous campaign aimed at disrupting the city's regular political process...
...even then, when the Soviets stopped the Wehrmacht just outside Moscow, Hitler still controlled vast territories in the western U.S.S.R. What if he had negotiated a settlement that let him keep his gains? He had predicted such a possibility in the fall: "The recognition that neither force is capable of annihilating the other will lead to a compromise peace." Stalin actually began sending out peace feelers as early as October 1941, and, according to Liddell Hart, Foreign Ministers Molotov and Ribbentrop finally met secretly in 1943 to seek a settlement. But the Germans wanted a new boundary on the Dnieper...
Could George Bush imagine, even six months ago, that there would be a non- Communist government in Eastern Europe during his lifetime, much less his presidency? Probably not. Then why is his response so lukewarm to an ideological victory that his predecessors, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, could only dream about...