Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Governments and business executives around the world have long complained that Japan keeps its economy essentially closed to outsiders. Last week, though, the Japanese opened the door a crack. New York-based Merrill Lynch became the first foreign company to take a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and start...
Richard Nixon claimed his part just as soon as he became President. He eagerly plugged into the moon landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and...
Within minutes, army troops from a nearby barracks descended on the crowd. The soldiers fired rifles into the air, rained down blows with hardwood clubs, and barged into the cathedral in search of the instigators. As word of the brutal military response spread, thousands of demonstrators roamed through the historic...
After an extraordinary 44-year tenure, the Hungarian-born Ormandy was succeeded in 1980 by Italian Conductor Riccardo Muti, now 44. Musical standards had slipped during Ormandy's last years, but under Muti things began to change. Out went the creamy, homogenized textures Ormandy had favored; in their place came...
.In February, the University affirmed its commitment to dealing with cases of sexual harassment when it secured the historic resignation of a tenured professor after a complaint of sexual harassment had been filed against him.