Word: impendingness
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But hardly had Thatcher faced down her parliamentary opponents than she was confronted by successive challenges on the industrial front. The leader of the gigantic Trades Union Congress and the head of the Confederation of British Industry both lodged urgent demands that she act promptly to reflate the economy or...
When guerrillas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front swept to power in July 1979, hopes were high that the forces that had united to overthrow hated Dictator Anastasio Somoza would join together to rebuild the war-shattered country. That did not happen. The nine-member Sandinista directorate, which is the...
The special sound and lighting effects, put together by Stompin' Zemo, the local DJ, add a spectacular aura to the show and are more and more frequently employed towards the end. At one point, all the characters freeze while a very fast electric strobe flickers on the black and white...
By the time Bradshaw agreed to take the job, however, rumors of Griffiths' impending resignation were already leaking in torrents from disgruntled insiders at RCA. That wrecked any hope that the top personnel change could be made without another barrage of bad publicity. Though RCA had prepared a four...
An ever popular myth is that there once was, and might be again, a nice, neat division of powers and functions among federal, state and local governments. This wistful notion- known in political science circles as the "layer-cake absolute"- has never existed in reality but can be tracked back...