Word: host
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev went out of his way to bolster the stature of his host, who was widely rumored in Poland to be out of the Soviet leader's favor. "I regard Comrade Jaruzelski as my great friend," he said at one point. "I will tell you Poles directly you are very lucky to have such a man at this complicated stage of Polish history...
Kuwait made its options clear when, in the wake of the Senate vote, it promptly agreed to buy 245 armored personnel carriers from the Soviet Union. A host of other nations, including France, China, Brazil and Argentina, are eagerly competing to meet the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arabs' desire to shore up defenses against their fundamentalist neighbor Iran...
...spoken of not as simply a place to catch a plane to Meridian but as a place to catch a plane to London. In the dreams of the boosters, the final certification of international-city status will come when Atlanta, which has the American designation in the competition for host city of the 1996 Olympic Games, emerges as the International Olympic Committee's choice. Then everyone will come and see that Atlanta is indeed the World's Next Great City...
...college as part of the '50s "silent generation" charged with conformity and apathy. But Dukakis was never silent. Through student $ governments and publications, he was always "sounding off" -- just as, after launching his political career, he would launch a column, run a regular radio show and become the host of a TV series, The Advocates. For all his contained air, he was put into this world to bustle...
...January he suddenly resigned as leader of a guerrilla coalition that is battling Kampuchea's Vietnamese-backed government; the next month he just as abruptly resumed his post. After Viet Nam stepped up its troop withdrawal from Kampuchea, ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to be host to peace talks in Djakarta next week between the warring sides. But then Sihanouk, who ruled Kampuchea (then called Cambodia) until 1970, quit his job again...