Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last time I had a chance to go to New Haven for the Game, two years ago, that repulsion hadn't worn off. I opted to stay in Cambridge and read John Locke in the library on that cold Saturday afternoon...
...bicycle is my best friend--I ride it everywhere. I tied a red ribbon to the handlebars so that it wouldn't get lost among the rows and rows of black bikes in the streets every day. Last week we rode into Tiananmen Square. You cannot imagine a space this big, and full of people. It must have been an incredible sight last...
...death of Lebanon's body politic, so often declared, may yet prove to have been (slightly) exaggerated. Last week, meeting in an abandoned air base at Qlaiaat in northern Lebanon, 58 aging Deputies of the country's parliament elected Rene Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Christian lawyer who enjoys the backing of Syria, to the presidency. The vote was a crucial step toward fulfilling the conditions of the peace plan brokered last month by the Arab League...
Aoun is too weak to expel the Syrians himself but strong enough to create havoc. Last week his backers rioted and even roughed up their own religious leader, the pro-Moawad Maronite Patriarch...
Mile-long lines of patient first-time voters snaked toward polling booths under a broiling sun last week as Namibia held United Nations-supervised elections that will lead the territory to independence after 74 years of South African control. So great was the enthusiasm that more than 90% of the country's 701,000 eligible voters cast ballots...