Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official level, the Soviets have shown no concern over the meeting planned between Reagan and Soviet refuseniks. At a press conference to discuss the forthcoming summit, U.S. affairs expert Georgy A. Arbatov and Communist Party Central Committee official Nikolai Shishlin both stated that they considered Reagan's meeting partners his own business...
...votes of Blacks, who have been left by the wayside of the "robust" American economy. While March unemployment was only 5.5 percent nationally, Black unemployment was a staggering 12.8 percent. Minorities are more likely to be poor--nearly half of all Black children live beneath the poverty level...
...student activists want to work on a national level. Many, in fact, feel that working to establish a national network is counterproductive and that a more effective way to work for political change is to focus on local issues and local change...
...racquetmen take out Yale, 6-3, and earn their sixth-straight nine-man and Ivy League championships. "This team didn't have the talent of the past four or five teams," Harvard Assistant Coach John Anz says. "But they worked hard all year to get at the level of past teams...
Pillsbury was ousted from the staff of the Senate Budget Committee in 1978 for criticizing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield during a meeting with Japanese officials in Tokyo. While holding a high-level job in the Pentagon from 1984 to 1986, he frequently appealed to friends on Capitol Hill when he felt that the Reagan Administration was not sufficiently supportive of anti- Communist movements in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...