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Word: lesson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could, perhaps, start with a little lesson about on-ice etiquette. See, the kids from the smart school played some pretty stupid hockey at times last night...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: What's Going On? Icemen Don't Know | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...This is a lesson we have to learn and it's a tough one," Donato said. "We have to just grin and bear...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: What's Going On? Icemen Don't Know | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...badly. But there are other areas, like Azerbaijan, where the armed forces are preventing events that result in | bloodshed and are keeping order. What happened in Georgia was a single incident. A painful event. But it did not happen at the initiative of the military. Our government learned a lesson: our armed forces do not participate in such events now, and local governments have no right to give them orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Sergei Akhromeyev: A Soldier Talks Peace Marshal | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...take days, weeks or months now take minutes. Any positive or negative events get communicated in seconds." Sinai added that while "a drop of 190 points is shocking and a source of great anxiety and nervousness, it doesn't suggest that the sky is going to fall. The lesson of 1987 is that financial markets often have a life of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom, Ka-boom! | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...than the refugee tide. It threatens both to fracture civil order and to splinter the once monolithic regime. The confused leadership ricocheted between stern warnings and appeasing gestures. As Honecker greeted visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Yao Yilin, the official news agency ADN warned that "there is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the counterrevolutionary unrest in Beijing." But the Politburo's subsequent statement suggests that many within the ruling elite were drawing different conclusions from the Tiananmen debacle. Reports circulated that the Politburo had demanded an account of the nation's "critical situation" from Honecker. Soon thereafter Honecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Lending an Ear | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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