Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general, we found a postive attitude about the quality of life and community spirit in East Cambridge...
...JERSEY. "Have we got a candidate!" Republicans chortled, when Pete Dawkins decided to challenge colorless Frank Lautenberg. A Rhodes scholar, Heisman trophy winner and once the youngest general in the Army, the squeaky- clean Dawkins seemed too good to be true. Apparently he is. Pilloried as a carpetbagger after moving from New York, Dawkins stoked the fire by declaring he could not stand the boredom of living in a small town, one of many missteps in an inept campaign. Lautenberg is now favored...
Besides the alleged laundering services described in the indictments, BCCI has been accused of handling secret accounts for such clients as Panama's allegedly drug-dealing dictator General Manuel Noriega and Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi. According to congressional testimony made public last week, Amjad Awan, a former BCCI officer arrested at the phony stag party, told a Senate subcommittee last month that he had made political payoffs for Noriega out of a BCCI account. In 1986 Khashoggi transferred $12 million from a BCCI account in Monte Carlo to an arms dealer to help purchase weapons used in the Iran-contra...
...these are decidedly long-term investments. For the moment, oil prices seem capable of deep downward swings. Indonesia's Subroto, the OPEC secretary- general, has warned that prices could fall as low as $5 per bbl. if Saudi Arabia and the other overproducers were to keep flooding the market. If such predictions fail to spur the group toward cooperation over the next few weeks, OPEC may be setting the stage for the oil-price collapse...
...Stalin herded peasants onto huge state farms and marched their former bosses, the well-to-do kulaks, off to Siberia. Given history and Communist dogma, it seemed that not even Mikhail Gorbachev would dare challenge the primacy of the collective farm in the system. But last week the General Secretary did exactly that...