Word: existing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether it was sexual harassment, affirmative action, or computers, Spence kept to a standard party line, acknowledging that problems exist in these areas, and pledging to continue work to solve them...
...where economic pressures can be influential. At the same time, however, it is important to note that this technique probably cannot change situations where violence is used for political purposes, as in EI Salvador, Nicaragua or Nambia. But within the United States, a wide range of nonviolent sanctions do exist, and the Nestle boycott proves that such methods can be put to good...
Until recently, the citizens of Sarajevo did not realize that they lacked a bob and luge run?in fact such a marvel did not exist in all of Yugoslavia?but now they have one, on the wooded slopes of 1,629-meter Mount Trebevic, one of the big, round-shouldered hills that guard Sarajevo on three sides. There is also a fine new indoor skating complex, an assertively modern structure with brown, smoked reflecting glass in the entryways and windows and, in the manner of the Pompidou Center in Paris, intentionally exposed ventilation pipes visible outside. Near...
...figured that even though Harvard did not have a particularly strong Computer Science department when I considered applying--in fact is didn't even exist--a school with its academic reputation would have to fix that icon," he explains...
...luck charms. Sometimes the women would bear the photographs on placards; sometimes they would hold a snapshot delicately out in front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from the presidential Pink House, and then dispersed for a week. But they would not go away. In many of the photographs the children posed formally, in dresses and coats and ties. In several...