Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refuse to let this chilling vision become reality. In my ongoing quest to make the world a fairer place and to combat campus activist apathy, I humbly propose a new, time consuming, liberal cause celebre...
...Let us decide what risks to take," Delaney said, adding, "we should move the fulcrum to acceptance of risk on the patient's part...
...United States and other non-communist countries are overlooking the atrocious acts of genocide committed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. For four years they terrorized the Cambodian population, sent people off to labor camps and let thousands starve to death. The Khmer Rouge intentionally kept food rations low so that Cambodians would be too weak to organize resistance against them. At least 20,000 were arrested and tortured for political crimes. To this day, there are rooms full of skulls lying in anonymous heaps, dug from the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge...
...problem lies in the alternative--leaving a Vietnamese government in Phnom Penh. Unwilling to let Vietnam extend its sphere of influence, both China and the United States would prefer the opposition coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge. But the Cambodian people would...
...autumn session of the Supreme Soviet was only 45 minutes old when President Mikhail Gorbachev smiled at the 470 Deputies and pointed with pride to giant projection screens suspended at both ends of the Kremlin hall. "Let's try out the new machine," he suggested, referring to the electronic voting system installed during the summer recess. He gave the signal, and the sound of clicking filled the hall. Hundreds of faces turned to the screens and saw . . . nothing...