Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, students holding out on the square knew that their numbers were dwindling and that their protest was turning into a minor sidelight to a power struggle. A few days ago, in a flash of their earlier exuberance, they erected a "Goddess of Democracy" at the northern end of the...
The President's triumph came not a minute too soon. The crucial NATO gathering demanded more from the U.S. than Bush's hypercautious hedging, ready or not. Ever since Gorbachev promised last December to slash Soviet forces in Europe, he had been bombarding an awed Europe with proposal after proposal...
It wasn't always that bad in East St. Louis. Katherine Dunham, a grande dame of the dance, was able to operate a studio in the city in the late 1960s. Heptathlon gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee recalls a happy childhood there and still returns occasionally from the West Coast...
If anything, these few morality trials do not go nearly far enough. The real scandal in Congress is not what's illegal; it is what's legal: the blatant, shameless greasing of congressional palms that violates good sense, good taste and good government. Capitol Hill is polluted by money -- campaign...
Congressmen can also take in cash directly by giving speeches for honorariums -- a misnomer, since little honor is involved. Consider the $2,000 the Oshkosh Truck Corp. paid each of six members of the House Armed Services Committee on April 1, 1987, for coming to breakfast. The eggs had barely...