Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police reported there were no injuries and only minor damage to the building, although no official cost estimate has been given...
...Armenian organizations gain sophistication, popular resentment is growing at Moscow's apparent disdain for nationalist grievances. While accounts of Stalin's crimes have been splashed across the pages of leading Soviet newspapers, the Armenian crisis has virtually been ignored. Pravda has given only vague accounts of the Yerevan demonstrations; when articles have appeared, correspondents have condemned the protests as the work of "corrupt elements" and "extremists." Says Ter-Petrossian: "What we are doing is what Gorbachev says he wants: people participating in government decisions." Adds another Armenian who regularly attends the Theater Square meetings: "He should be proud...
Even after each client has received the names of two matches, Stern and her staff of six do not abandon the libido to take its wobbly course. Hopeful marriage mates are given coaching to learn the finer points of courtship ("Packaging Yourself for Marriage," "Getting Past First Base"). "Men and women constantly complain about mixed signals," says Stern. "The men accuse women of agreeing to a second date, then never returning calls. The women say, 'Why do they always say I'll call you, when they don't mean it?' We tell all our clients: tell the truth...
...analyzing himself via not just one memory play but a trilogy -- Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound -- Neil Simon said he wanted to write a play without depth or aspiration, one that was simply funny. So he has turned to old-fashioned, door-slamming, crockery-smashing farce. Given that his third marriage broke up as he was writing, it is not surprising that Rumors, which opened on Broadway last week, concerns the vulnerability of the marital relationship to gossipmongering by friends ready to believe the worst...
...agreed that these seats were not "befitting a Harvard Senior." Given that the Soldiers Field stadium can only hold 38,000 people, I understand that alumni and University dignitaries fill up a majority of the choice seats on the Harvard side, making it difficult to seat all the students in good seats...