Word: host
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...democracy movement gathered momentum in Beijing during the month of May, a host of independent Chinese student organizations began to band together at Harvard and other area colleges to register support for the protesters back home...
Faced with accusations that its aggressive trade policies threaten rain forests, the oceans and a host of endangered species, the superpower has launched a series of initiatives. But the country is handicapped by a shortage of conservation activists and experts. Do its actions signal a heightened environmental awareness or merely skillful public relations...
...practice "tactical withdrawal" (i.e., retreat) in response to an enemy attack. At the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in Moscow, where senior officers play war games on huge maps, an instructor stressed that for the past two years, the scenarios have $ always begun with the other side shooting first. Neither host nor guest was so rude as to make the obvious point that in almost all cases, the "other side" could only...
Many refugees, however, lack compelling claims to asylum. Western governments maintain that most of the people flooding out of such places as Nicaragua, Viet Nam and Eastern Europe may be tired, hungry and poor but are not victims of persecution. A host of measures aimed at deterring refugees have been introduced. The most obvious -- and no doubt the cruelest -- is deportation. That has been the recent fate of thousands of Central Americans, largely Nicaraguan citizens, who tried to enter the U.S. Washington's repelling measure has had the intended effect: whereas asylum applications in Texas ran at a rate...
Scarred by his childhood memories, Wayne remains distant from the rest of the world. At his own black-tie benefit, Wayne wanders around without speaking to his guests, and when the gorgeous blonde photographer Vicky Vale (Kim Bassinger) asks where she can find the host, he gives her a confused look and conceals his identity. Later, when he invites Vale to dinner, they sit at opposite ends of a long table, unable to see or hear each other...