Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli officials insist they had indeed considered the possibility of a backlash by Hizballah. Rabin told the Knesset on Wednesday that the government had taken into account all possible outcomes, "including the event that took place, and worse." He did not say whether it had concluded that an American hostage might be executed or whether it had anticipated the U.S. public outcry over the Higgins outrage...
...Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, President Derek C. Bok, the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the president of the Education Commission of the States and Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos were all slated to speak at the event...
...final analysis, everyone from corporate chieftains to cab drivers realizes that the expansion cannot go on forever. "Someday, some event will end the extraordinary string of economic advances that has prevailed since late 1982," Greenspan told Congress last week. So far, Greenspan has provided a delicate touch in stifling inflation without making the kind of sudden moves that could trigger a recession. The U.S. may be in for only a brief and relatively innocuous reversal like the one in 1961 rather than the painful contraction of 1981-82, when the unemployment rate averaged 8.7%. The current slowdown...
...last commercial-free frontier is about to be breached. When the first British-Soviet space mission blasts into orbit in 1991, the event will have all the advertising hoopla of the Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint project...
...fact that, with the years, I understood that the movement toward revolution and its causes could not be understood simply in terms of World War I, 1914. My initial conception was one that the majority of those in the West and East today share, namely that the main decisive event was the so-called October Revolution and its consequences. But it became clear to me gradually that the main and decisive event was not the October Revolution, and that it wasn't a revolution at all. What we mean by revolution is a massive spontaneous event, and there was nothing...