Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, Harvard did not celebrate early, because MIT kept the pressure on the Crimson goal. With 10 seconds remaining, an MIT shot glanced wide off the left post, and Harvard finally had its third win over MIT this season...
...played a really solid match," Krass said. "She kept the balls deep enough to win. Once again she was mentally stronger than her opponent...
...next stage of perestroika will probably be even harder than the latest. For market incentives to work, prices will have to be decontrolled -- a frightening prospect given the pent-up inflationary pressures. Rents and the prices of meat, bread and milk have been kept at the same level for decades; if decontrolled, they would be likely to rocket. Gorbachev understands the challenge. "Socialist markets cannot be formed without price reform," he told a party meeting in February. But having reached that daunting precipice, he blinked. Rents and basic food prices, he promised, will not be raised for at least...
...years ago, Leonid Brezhnev's officials sent plainclothes militia and bulldozers to break up and bury an outdoor show of unofficial art in Sokolniki, a park on the outskirts of Moscow. This goons' picnic would not be repeated today. The socialist realist line, imposed by Stalin after 1929 and kept to the end of Brezhnev's reign, held that a work of art should fulfill the criteria of partinost (party spirit), ideinost (firm commitment to prescribed ideology) and narodnost (true portrayal of the life, soul and spirit of the people). It has now been undone. "Dissident" modernism became a talisman...
...other three tables are chipped, and the legs holding up the table are uneven. The lights upstairs aren't kept up, since most of the squash players play downstairs...