Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MacDonald who led the Harvard hockey team to its first-ever national championship last winter, did not close the door on the NHL--he left himself with the option of playing in the playoffs or possibly joining the Whalers after his stint in Europe...
...brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted in its tracks because the people got in its way, and because it got in theirs...
...hope of freedom and reform in Communist Poland. Last week Walesa found himself at the center of a very different situation. His forces had just whipped the Communist Party in the country's first truly democratic elections since 1947, causing a constitutional logjam that for the moment left unclear exactly how and by whom Poland would be governed. Walesa, 46, his trademark mustache now gray and his stocky build padded with extra poundage, warned supporters shortly after the vote, "It's too early for congratulations...
...options were limited. After almost two decades of exchanging ideological insults, the Chinese were scarcely prepared to accept a lecture from the Soviets. In any case, admonitions would only feed lingering Chinese suspicions that the Kremlin still harbors hopes of playing schoolmaster to the Communist movement. So what is left, in Moscow's view, is nothing but time and patience. "If you think we don't understand the situation, you are wrong," said a frustrated Soviet observer last week. "Not one Soviet, from the President on down to a schoolchild, approves of China's use of tanks to repress...
Batman surely has consumer anticipation -- in Hollywoodese, "wanna-see." Last fall Fleet Street sent out helicopters to get photos from the film's closed London set. In the U.S. last winter, fans reportedly paid $6 to get into theaters where the 90-sec. trailer was being shown, then left before the main feature. The market is already clogged with Batman products -- including miniature Batmobiles, Batwings, sunshades, earrings, cloisonne pins, backpacks and boxer shorts -- as part of a huge merchandising campaign...