Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sued for sex discrimination, the cost of a lawsuit might mean their financial ruin. The UC should step right in and buy them up--before the University has time to bail them out like they did the Hasty Pudding club. A new student center could be constructed on their land, or the buildings could be sold to pay for a student center on, say, the site of the Fly Club, it they were willing to sell...
...companies, including Mobil and Union Carbide, that still operate in South Africa. Taxes will consume an estimated 72% of the money that U.S. firms earn in South Africa, vs. 57.5% before the new law. The rise is likely to speed the already swift exodus of corporate America from the land of apartheid...
...sidekick are farcical figures meant to illustrate the failures of both church and state when dealing with morality and poverty. The novel's principal setting is Howard Beach, a working-class section of the borough of Queens, described a bit too graphically by Breslin as a "white finger of land that sticks into Jamaica Bay by Kennedy Airport." Across a field of tall bulrushes is East New York, a Third World of crime, drugs and hunger...
...dark days of repression, economic hardship and international obloquy. If there is a lesson in the 56-year education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, it is that a new, unfamiliar kind of leader has risen in the Soviet Union, and that the old rules of dealing with that long-suffering land are suddenly outdated. For the West, the education is just beginning...
...discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with Raisa. If it were known that Raisa had once contradicted her husband before a foreign leader -- well, that could only add to the whispered accusations that Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, 55, is guilty of conduct unbecoming a Soviet wife. In a land where women have full equality under the law but where a husband has the last word, Raisa has become a widely respected but occasionally resented figure. To a Westerner, that attitude is hard to understand. So what if Raisa dresses stylishly, accompanies her husband on official travels in the Soviet Union...