Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refugees ignored pleas by new Communist Party leader Egon Krenz to remain in East Germany and scoffed at his promises of reforms. So far this year, about 170,000 people have left seeking freedom in the West...
Garrett scored on 1-yd. runs twice in the second quarter, as Princeton went 86 yards on 18 plays for one score and 53 yards on six plays for another with 37 seconds left after a 26-yd. punt by Penn's Dave Amodio...
...YORK--Robert Birge blocked a punt at the Columbia 13 with 1:40 remaining, and Karl Romero kicked a 19-yd. field goal with 16 seconds left to save the Big Green...
...company suggested that a seal on one of the plant's eleven-story-high reactors may have developed a leak, leading to the ignition of a stream of gas. But workers contended that the cloud was so dense that a valve must have been left open. In any case, the disaster dramatized the need for greater concern for safety by the chemical industry. Its lobbyists had persuaded the Bush Administration to remove tougher safety restrictions on such facilities from proposed legislation for renewing the Clean...
...have known it for four decades ended. The concept was always an artificial one: a handful of diverse nations suddenly iron- curtained off from their neighbors and force-fed an unwanted ideology. Soviet dominion over the region may someday be regarded as a parenthetical pause (1945-89) that left economic scars but had little permanent impact on the culture and history of Central Europe...