Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidential tax data to a mob-linked company in exchange for illegal gifts such as theater tickets and expensive dinners. One year later, their charges ignored, the whistle-blowers sought help from IRS officials in Washington. As a result, Santella received a twelve-day suspension without pay -- whereupon a group of senior IRS officials chipped in to reimburse...
Pomp and circumstance was the order of the day at Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport as Ethiopia's Marxist President, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, gave a group of progovernment dignitaries a pep talk and then flew off for a four-day state visit to East Germany. But within a few hours of his departure early last week, a group of senior army officers were in revolt against Mengistu's rigidly Marxist twelve-year-old regime...
...more humbled than inconvienced. Should I have taken this as a personal affront? Or should I have been upset that this happened to me as a member of a particular group? I'm just not sure if I should be angry or confused...
...Given the pending Supreme Court ruling that might allow state legislatures to increase restrictions on abortion access, this is a terrific precedent," said Pam Nourse, the group's executive director...
...Crimson players grabbed a banner from the stands that read "Harvard Crimson, 1989 NCAA Champions." They skated over to the small section of Harvard fans, a group of about 1000, the only noisy people in the St. Paul Civic Arena...