Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should be the only destination of Soviets who want to emigrate." If embassy officials are defensive about the new procedures, they are also firm. To qualify as refugees, Soviets, like all other applicants, must prove that they have a "well-grounded fear" of persecution; those who succeed get an average of $7,500 in U.S. Government...
...buyout last year. But that has not removed the vast differences in the ways the two companies communicate. "I'm seen as terribly abrupt and abrasive," says Nevin. "If you're very direct, you're admired in American culture. The Japanese culture is much more subtle. I can never get them to tell me what they actually mean, and they may think I'm rude and crass. But both sides are only behaving in ways familiar to their own cultures...
...Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Library of Congress . . . Hold it -- when did bibliophiles get mixed up with the military? Last year, it turns out, the library began working covertly with the Pentagon to arrange consulting contracts on weapons projects as a way to hide Defense Department spending...
COVER: In the adoption market, healthy white infants are the hot commodity, while other children get left behind...
...real and only-looks-like-real are mixed with abandon, a viewer can get disoriented. Newscasters like Connie Chung and Mary Alice Williams introduce Hollywood-style mini-dramas one day, news stories from Warsaw and Capitol Hill the next. Real-life victims of brutal crimes return to the scene to act them out for the TV cameras. At least one actor from America's Most Wanted was turned in to authorities by a concerned viewer -- who mistook him for the fugitive he played in a re-enactment...