Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I had a height advantage because of my jumping ability, and sometimes the ball just bounces your way," Mitchell said. "I think I've been getting in good position in the other games, but the ball hasn't been bouncing my way."
That he was. While Gorbachev's hands-off policy was the immediate cause of the chain reaction of liberation that has swept through Eastern Europe in the past few months, John Paul deserves much of the longer-range credit. His triumphant tour of Poland in 1979, says a Polish bishop...
The change of strategy was so sudden and striking that even veteran policymakers were taken aback. After stressing for months how important it was for the U.S. to stay competitive in high technology, the Bush Administration was getting ready to pull the plug on its two most widely publicized high...
What complicates the issue is that the electronics industry is as divided as the Administration on these questions. Even as U.S. chipmakers cry for tough Government action to open Japan's vast chip market to increased sales of American-made semiconductors, U.S. computer makers, who stuff their machines with foreign...
The narrative's first volume, Berlin Game, began with heavy irony, as Deighton's hero Bernard Samson, a British agent watching for trouble at the Wall, asked his friend Werner Volkmann, "How long have we been sitting here?" and Volkmann answered sourly, "Nearly a quarter of a century." Spy Line...