Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"When we got in ((the housing project)), there was a struggle to survive. It was the late 1970s, and the vibrations from both groups was very hostile, very, very hostile. There was almost every day a major crime -- people getting mugged, robbed, chains snatched, children beaten. And not people of...
State Department colleagues speculate that if Bloch turned to the Soviets in < Vienna, it may have been out of frustration. A competent diplomat, but a dour, moody man, Bloch was deeply offended at having to serve under two inexperienced political appointees. He dismissed former Ambassador Helene von Damm as a...
The farmer backlash is bad news for the U.S. and Japan's other trade partners. The L.D.P. will now think long and hard before opening markets any further. In coming months Japan and the U.S. are to start talking about changing Japan's arcane retail-distribution system, which American businessmen...
For all its trouble Mexico is finally getting a modest dose of debt relief, but whether it will be enough to right the country's economy is in question. Last week Mexico and 15 of its largest creditor banks said they had reached a tentative agreement under which the country...
For the first time, the opposition takes control of the upper house of the Diet. -- Soviet President Gorbachev keeps his balance, but the waves are getting rougher. -- Mideast masters of double-talk flip-flop their rhetoric.