Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked quickly through the kids playing in front of the liquor store at the corner, looking among them for my Little Sister...
Congress always wages an uneven battle with the President, but Democratic political consultant Ted Van Dyk declares, "The troops are starting to get restless. There have been no clear alternatives and damn little criticism. Foley and Mitchell should be out front." Yet the Democrats have been mired in troubles of their own: the convoluted agony of the pay raise, the forced resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and whip Tony Coelho, and now the sex scandal involving Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Nor is the climate right for combat, with the economy perking along and the President enjoying an extended honeymoon. Grouses...
...population, the Russians complain that personal snubs abound. Alexander Yashugin, a decorated World War II veteran who lives in a suburb of Tallinn, said an Estonian shopkeeper refused to let him register to buy a TV set, and would not even put him on a waiting list. "On the front, they didn't discriminate between Balt and Russian," he said...
...against it," said Rein Kaarapere, an economist with the republic's Council of Ministers. He may have a point. Early this month delegates from Intermovement, which claims to represent 100,000 Russians in Estonia, joined members of similar groups across the country to found the United Front of Workers of Russia. The front is dedicated to battling nationalist movements, but it also expressed opposition to Gorbachev's plans to introduce more private enterprise...
Cornwell is the half-brother of spy novelist John Le Carre (real name: David Cornwell), and perhaps has a special interest in the genre. Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply trying to stir up a bit of mischief...