Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before he fell ill, Papandreou, 70, hoped to talk the Alliance of the Left into joining PASOK in "a coalition of the progressive forces." He dismissed the financial scandals, claiming they are simply plots instigated against him by "foreign and domestic forces." But last week another scandal was revealed as U.S. authorities arrested 14 employees of the National Mortgage Bank of Greece on charges of illegally transferring about $700 million to the bank's central office in Athens, apparently to avoid paying taxes...
...Nieman Foundation awarded fellowships to eight foreign journalists for study at Harvard next year, the journalism center announced earlier this month...
...Teaching an interdisciplinary core curriculum that would include English, fine arts, foreign languages, history, literature, math, science and social studies. The emphasis would be on critical thinking -- making connections between ideas -- rather than rote learning. To promote positive values and encourage good citizenship, the curriculum would include health instruction and community-service activities...
...Israel's hard-line leaders are reluctant to criticize the behavior of their fellow nationalists across the "green line." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir concedes that "no one is entitled to take the law into his own hands" but reserves his sympathy for the settlers' plight. Foreign Minister Moshe Arens praises West Bank Jews as the "frontline obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state." Still, the government hopes to cool off the settlers with a series of tough new measures against Arab demonstrators. Last week Chief of Staff Dan Shomron requested an amendment that would allow him to deport Palestinians...
...activism. He wrote a friend that inflation was "robbing the country," and he worried about its impact on workers. His political views grew out of his own experiences, not Western influence; he never went abroad, but his voracious reading exposed him to all sorts of modern concepts, Chinese and foreign. "He believed," said a friend, "the Chinese expression that the leaders should serve the people...