Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone was surprised at how strong we were against Houston," Costin-Scalise said. "At first we started winning in the pool events, and I think they got discouraged...
...they don't require the import of components that have to be paid for in scarce hard currency. In any case, those aspiring to become the Armand Hammers of this generation may recall that after five years, in 1930, Hammer sold his pencil factory in Moscow and got...
...responded directly to several of the Pope's requests. Last year Lithuania's two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an art museum, was restored for worship. This year the Belorussian republic got its first bishop in 63 years. That paved the way for Archbishop Angelo Sodano, who oversees the Vatican's foreign relations, to make the arrangements for Gorbachev's historic visit to the Holy...
...this creeping globalism more striking than in high-definition television. Six months ago, American electronics manufacturers were using apocalyptic terms to describe the race to build tomorrow's TV sets, calling it a life-and-death struggle for economic survival. But plans for a coordinated U.S. effort quickly got bogged down in arguments over technical standards...
Jack Atchison. In 1986 and 1987 Atchison was a managing partner of Arthur Young & Co., the accounting firm that audited Lincoln. Under Atchison's direction, the thrift got a clean bill of health. Later Atchison took a $930,000-a-year job as a vice president with Lincoln's parent company, American Continental Corp. Like his boss, Atchison took the Fifth before the committee several weeks...