Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of farewell ceremonies over the past six days in key provincial towns, Cambodians cheered the departing troops and praised the communist solidarity between the two neighboring countries...
...Monday, Khmer Rouge radio claimed its forces had captured "a major strategic position" on the road between the key towns of Battambang and Pailin in western Cambodia...
...admission, Harvard had been a key player in the exchange of student financial information since the 1950s, to the point of volunteering its own officers' time for the private company--SAS--commissioned to collate the data...
With a Yale man in the White House and two others in key Cabinet posts, it is easy to assume that sociological evidence strongly buttresses this % collegiate pecking order. But, in truth, it is nearly impossible to calculate the value added by, say, a Princeton degree compared with one from a selective but less prestigious school. Totting up the comparative educational backgrounds of honorees listed in Who's Who may reveal something about those admitted to Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from...
...million East Germans to the West between 1949 and 1961. But this time there was the remarkable sight of Hungary bucking its Communist ally to assist the East German refugees in their quest to begin new lives in a capitalist nation. To open its borders, Budapest suspended key paragraphs of a 1969 bilateral treaty between Hungary and East Germany that forbids the unauthorized passage of citizens of either country into third countries. Budapest's bold maneuver provided the West with a vivid glimpse of fractures within the Warsaw Pact -- and raised unnerving questions about the refugee tide that might ensue...