Word: formerly
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Panah Huseynov, 32, a member of the directorate of the Azerbaijani Popular Front, is seated at a desk in the former schoolhouse that serves as the group's new headquarters. He is listening to an Azerbaijani refugee from Armenia describe how he and his family were expelled from their home last November. "I was thrown from my house, beaten," the man says. "I lived off weeds, anything I could find." As Huseynov shakes his head in anger, the refugee continued, "They want to cut us up like sheep. But we'll burn them first...
...shall we say, "special." It could not have been particularly agreeable for the U.S. to deal with an authoritarian regime, but they considered it necessary from a geostrategic viewpoint. We have gone through a difficult period when we had to negotiate a new agreement on a different footing. The former regime ((of General Francisco Franco)) posed no problem for the U.S., but that comfortable relationship was lost. Now we have one of mutual acceptance and respect...
William Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the EPA and now chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
...contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...
...choice activists won stunning victories in Florida's legislature and the U.S. Congress, that promise began to be fulfilled. With the political landscape seeming to undergo a seismic shift, many antiabortion politicians have concluded that the only way to maintain their footing is to tiptoe away from their former positions...