Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors' work was published earlier in a scientific journal, including the fact that a few Bedfordshire cats had each contributed as many as 100 items of prey to the study, they received letters from other cat owners boasting of their own pets' prowess. The record, they report, is currently held by a cat from Dorset that dragged in more than 400 little creatures in one year. The scientists are aghast. "These proud owners," they report, "seem quite unperturbed by the slaughter...
...political career he had to be in military service of some kind." A 53-week program in the Texas Air National Guard qualified him in F-102 interceptors. Lieut. Bush signed up for a program that rotated Guard pilots to Viet Nam, but he wasn't called. Instead he held short-term jobs, including a stint at Pull for Youth, a Houston program serving ghetto youngsters. "I wasn't interested in taking root," he says. "I was having fun." Once, with Marvin as company, he decided to take a few of the Pull for Youth kids on a plane ride...
...progress than the church, especially with the election in 1978 of the Polish Pope John Paul II. After Solidarity was outlawed in 1982, the Polish government became desperate for Vatican ties in order to win support among its devoutly Catholic populace and enhance international esteem. John Paul, however, held back because the bishops in Poland feared that their tenuous status would be undermined if the government could deal directly with Rome...
...Mezhdurechensk miners went back to work, but the strikes were just beginning elsewhere in the Kuzbass and the Ukraine as workers pressed for assurance they would share in the government concessions. At week's end the strike in Kazakhstan was winding down, but workers in the Donbass still held out over pension questions, prompting a government pledge that all the issues would be considered without delay...
...elections cost the LDP control of the upper house of the Japanese parliament and brought down Prime Minister Sousuke Uno. Before the setback, the party had held a monopoly on government power in Japan since...