Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confined to the drab, provincial city of Gorky, suffers from a heart condition for which the Soviet government has refused the treatment he requests, and had to stage a hunger strike 18 months ago to win permission for his daughter-in-law to leave the U.S.S.R. and join her husband in the U.S. But despite his internal exile and straitened circumstances, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, 62, wrote and somehow conveyed to American Physicist Sidney Drell a long open letter detailing his views on control of the nuclear weapons he once helped the Kremlin to develop...
...further sign of the contras' troubles came last week when Edén Pastora, a former Sandinista who has been leading a separate group of guerrillas operating from the south, announced that he was ceasing his activities. Pastora, who refused to join forces with the U.S.-supported contras in the north, said he had run out of arms and money. The real reason may be that his campaign had not sparked the army desertions or the popular support that he had expected...
...pored over it at night. By the time he returned to the U.S. in 1973, he had decided to become a doctor. In a year of dedicated slogging, he took the necessary preliminary courses and then graduated from Columbia University's medical school. He was determined to join the CDC, much to the amusement and disdain of more success-oriented classmates. "I was called a Goody Two-Shoes," he remembers...
...Cambridge Civic Association's (CCA) election drive held to launch the efforts of the progressive municipal party which has battled for power with the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independent organization. Three city councilors were there, one school committee member was there, and a handful of candidates aspiring to join them also showed...
...strongest work in years. It begins with 33 dancers, dressed in multicolored practice clothes, walking briskly across the stage, each alone, no two taking precisely the same route. This traffic is directed by Glass's galvanizing Rubric: loud, brash music, pulsing like a motor. One could never join this crowd of pedestrians; anyone who has ever tried to move across a major artery, or even a busy sidewalk, in an alien capital knows how hard it is to catch the rhythm. Yet a series of three couples in pale unitards does invade the mob, finally clearing a space...