Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth so much less than the land underneath them. Palatial homes whose scale is limited only by the owners' taste and imagination are rising in their place. Typically, the latter far exceeds the former...
...other hand, directly after Wonder's quote, the section labeled "Anonymous" begins by citing the Cuckoo Song form the year 1250: "Summer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, and springth the wude nu--Sing cuccu!" I suppose in the context of the latter, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," doesn't sound so silly...
...Chaim Weizmann -- detested the Stern Gang that was implicated in terrorist bombings and assassinations. Shamir was one of its most notorious members. If Israel refuses to budge on the West Bank, it could, over time, become just another Levantine war zone pretending to be a country, in which latter-day equivalents of the Stern Gang battle with the most extremist of the Palestinians...
...industry, the Government has long played a crucial watchdog role. & Checking U.S. produce, meat, poultry and fish is an operation of mind-boggling -- critics say irrational -- complexity. Responsibility is parceled out among several agencies, and jurisdictions can overlap. The FDA checks fruits and vegetables as well as fish, the latter a task it shares with the Commerce Department. The Department of Agriculture handles meat and poultry at slaughterhouses and processing plants...
...West has little more than vague principles to offer, not a comprehensive vision. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an influential figure among Bush Republicans, has argued that Washington and Moscow should directly negotiate the future of Eastern Europe at a kind of "Yalta Two," a latter-day reprise of the much criticized wartime agreement that cemented the East-West division of Europe. Moscow would agree to tolerate hitherto unprecedented political and economic liberalism in the East and would renounce the Brezhnev Doctrine. In return, the West would assent to the "legitimate" Soviet security interests there, including the implicit promise...