Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board was created in 1984, following a year-long debate over the police department's response to a New Year's Eve mugging of a white youth by a group of Blacks. Graham and local residents accused the police of a "round-up of all the black children" in the area...
...most dramatic appeal came in April 1985, on the eve of President Reagan's controversial trip to the Bitburg military cemetery in West Germany, where members of Hitler's SS are buried. At a ceremony to receive the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement, Wiesel, standing on the same podium as the President, implored him to call off the visit. "That place, Mr. President, is not your place," he said. "Your place is with the victims of the SS." Reagan went to Bitburg despite the protests, but Wiesel's plea had a lasting resonance...
Late last week, on the eve of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the finance ministers and central bankers of Japan, Britain, West Germany, France and the U.S. closeted themselves for more than seven hours in Treasury Secretary James Baker's conference room in Washington to discuss the increasingly painful issue. The aim of the so-called Group of Five was to restore some semblance of unity to worldwide monetary policy. They failed to do that on Friday, but after a 4 1/2 hour Saturday meeting with their counterparts from Canada and Italy issued...
...eve of the final election of the Reagan presidency, the TIME survey found the proportion of Democrats to Republicans has continued to shrink. In 1980, fully 49% of those surveyed called themselves Democrats and only 28% Republicans. Today the numbers are 34% and 24%. While in 1980, 23% of the respondents said they did not belong to either party, today the figure has grown to 42%. But the historic realignment that some political observers predicted after the President's 1984 landslide re-election has not yet occurred. Instead, the U.S. is undergoing a process that might be called "dealignment." Only...
...faith. Long before Calvin, Augustine championed predestination; before Luther, he taught salvation by God's mysterious grace, not by good works. Augustine more than any other writer defined Roman Catholic teaching on the Trinity, conditions for waging a "just war" and the "original sin" of Adam and Eve that corrupts all humanity. With the latter teaching, complains French Philosopher Jean Guitton, "he weighed down Christianity with his pessimism...