Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic crisis of the U.S.S.R. is so severe and so all absorbing for the Kremlin -- and that preserving the goodwill of the outside world is so crucial -- that not even hard-liners will have the stomach for a crackdown. For a while, the Balts may settle for some kind of semiautonomous status in a far looser Soviet confederation. But in these dizzying times, "semi" may become a euphemism for almost total, and "a while" may be a matter of a few years rather than decades...
...really like the lectures," I heard one student say. "They make me feel guilty." Lectures do seem designed to produce guilt. This sense of guilt is not productive or constructive, the kind that sparks a re-examination of societal structures and behavior. This guilt is self-complacent, rooted in the fact that we Harvard students were born privileged and "those people" weren't. And that's as far as social reflection goes...
...understand and sympathize with people in my district who make 15 and 20 and $30,000 a year who would have trouble understanding why this kind of pay level is needed," said House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt...
Zuromskis said those vaccinated between 1957 and 1967 "get a different kind of measles. We have to consider those folks as really not immune...
...eight biennial Seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly Elected Mayors, cosponsored by the IOP and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is trying to provide City Hall rookies with this kind of knowledge that can only come from someone who has been there. The program includes discussions of everything from ethics and dealing with reporters to running a police department and dealing with natural disaster...