Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus commenced the so-called monster trial, Italy's most ambitious, costly and complex attempt ever to root out the Mafia from its historic home in western Sicily. Everything about the criminal prosecution is gigantic. There are 467 defendants, variously charged with drug trafficking, Mafia membership and 90 murders in...
Nonetheless, the Saudis have already put oil producers and their lenders in a historic jam. The worst trouble spot will be Mexico, which last week felt compelled to slash the average price of its oil from $19.77 to $15.09. The country has foreign debts of $96 billion and says it...
Israel's defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Tel that Hussein's decision created a "historic opportunity" for Middle East peace. Rabin called on the 1.3 million Palestinians in Israel's occupied territories to jettison the PLO.
Four years before Bakker began building his network, Robert H. Schuller decided to start telecasts from California's first drive-in church, which he had founded in Garden Grove. His optimistic Christianity won a ready audience, and the church boomed. Emboldened by a nationwide fund base, Schuller opened the Crystal...
It was increasingly clear that a watershed of possibly historic dimensions had arrived for the beleaguered Third World petropowers. In the '70s, when oil-price hikes seemed limitless, eager representatives from the industrialized world made pilgrimages to the doors of the oil-rich, looking to buy petroleum and to sell...