Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other big loser was the U.S., which has given its public support and $1.5 million a day in aid to Duarte since 1984, when his election inspired hope that the war might end. Washington desperately wanted to build the Christian Democrats into El Salvador's bulwark against the political extremes, both the Communist insurgents and ARENA, the paramilitary organization turned political party that has been closely linked to death squads responsible for thousands of political murders. But the well-intended Duarte failed either to negotiate a peace or restore his country's shattered economy; his government was widely despised...
...ready smile, he wears a pith helmet and has a whistle dangling around his neck to summon cabs. "There's more to life than sports," he says. "It's a hard reality." That is a lesson that Scates, and thousands of other student athletes across the land, are given a lifetime to mull over...
...athletic scholarships. Both sides of the argument claimed to speak for the disadvantaged. Some who opposed higher standardized-test scores tried to limit debate by labeling as racist or elitist those who favored such a change. But the focus of that debate was misplaced: too much attention was given to who gets in and too little to what happens to students once they are accepted...
ELVIS COSTELLO: SPIKE (Warner Bros.). God's Comic, Stalin Malone, Miss Macbeth: even the titles sting. The songs are like an acid bath; no quarter given or expected...
...first question is easier to answer: no one knows how far is too far, certainly not with any precision, perhaps not even the Soviets. "Gorbachev has given his clients considerable leeway," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a research fellow at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "But he does not seem to have a carefully thought-through policy for the longer term. It is a dreadful double problem: how to open the floodgates without letting too much water rush...