Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compensation to survivors of those killed in the Iran Air passenger plane shot down in July 1988 by the U.S.S. Vincennes. The U.S. has already begun paying families of non-Iranian passengers, but compensation to Iranians, who account for most of the 290 people aboard, has been held up by a lawsuit the Tehran government is pursuing against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice...
...county that virtually everyone knew everyone else, and spoke with outward courtesy. Most of the families, black and white, have roots that go back 200 years, their lives, for good and ill, entwined. The blacks lived in intricate dependency upon the whites, who owned the land and held the power. But the foundation of white paternalism was segregation: when segregation was endangered, the relationship dissolved...
...naked eye, the object mounted on a postage stamp-size wafer and held aloft by a pair of tweezers is all but invisible. Even under a bright light, it looks like nothing more than a speck of dust. But magnified 160 times in an electron microscope, the speck begins to take on shape and function: a tiny gear with teeth the size of blood cells. "You have to be careful when handling these things," warns Kaigham Gabriel, an engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories . "I've accidentally inhaled a few right into my lungs...
...streets. Kennedy raised his jaw and chopped the air with his hand, his voice growing ragged as he shouted his challenges to the other world and answered with his famous $ refrain, "Let them come to Berlin." In that moment the tribute Kennedy gave to those people was as honorably held, as profoundly pure as anything he had ever said. It was made of truth and given to history. "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...Minister ad infinitum, quit? Not yet, but maybe sooner than some dared hope. Last week Thatcher announced that she would not stand for a fifth consecutive term in office. She told the London weekly Sunday Correspondent she would lead the Conservative Party into the next election, likely to be held in 1991, but after that there "will be plenty of people who can take over...