Word: item
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political climate in the USSR is ripe for a confession. Criticism of Stalin and Russia's past mistakes is now chic. Adding another item to Stalin's list of atrocities is unlikely to provoke a conservative reaction, especially when the defense is so untenable. And with the recent Soviet acceptance of the binding decisions of the World Court, including its 1948 condemnation of genocide, Moscow's confession would be timely...
Reyes said a man matching this description was later seen and looking for open suite doors. The man was reportedly carrying a Coop bag, an item Lai said had been stolen from his room...
...they did in Fatal Attraction. This film is relatively calm. But it is worth taking in because all concerned catch the tone of New York's besieged multitudes. Their weariness is touched with hope, and their hope with irony. Their realism transforms what might have been an item easily overlooked by the moviegoer into something worth collaring...
...split so deeply into two unequal realms--those who read the classics and those who don't--that the New York Times is assured of a chuckle by headlining an opinion piece "Aristotle, Tolstoy, Donald Duck, Beast Literature," even if the reader doesn't know that the last item is an allusion to Harvard's Literature and Arts...
...next twelve months, 72% expected conditions to stay the same or improve, while just 24% of those polled saw the economy getting worse. Asked about their spending plans in the coming year, 65% said they thought it would be a good time to buy a major household item -- a refrigerator, for example, or a television...