Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaigns of underdogs Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern were given enormous boosts by their New Hampshire performances. Both candidates lost the primaries, but won the public relations battle when they finished better than expected. Walter Mondale won the Iowa caucuses by a large margin in 1984, but Gary Hart emerged instantly into the spotlight by beating the odds with a second place. Hart then became the media-appointed alternative to Mondale, shoving John Glenn, the previous number two candidate, out of the race...
Opponents of the aid argue that U.S.sponsorship of the rebels has given theSandinistas an excuse to suppress politicaldissent and avoid fulfilling the democraticpromises made in their 1979 constitution...
That would have given Nicaragua two months tolive up to the broad promises of ceasefire,amnesty and democratization made in a January 16agreement among the five Central Americanpresidents
...state Secretary of Environmental Affairs has given the CWT developers tentative permission to build--on condition that they provide more parking or scale down their building...
With at least 6 million Ethiopians threatened with starvation for the second time in three years because of drought, Western food donations have once again begun pouring into the country. But much of this aid never reaches the hungry. Last week relief officials reported that 172 tons of food, given chiefly by Italy, were destroyed when rebels of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front attacked a 17-truck commercial convoy moving supplies to the stricken provinces of Eritrea and Tigre. The guerrillas say the vehicles were used to ferry ammunition to government troops, a charge adamantly denied by aid organizations...