Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting last Tuesday with party officials, Gorbachev said the party also needs a "flow of fresh blood, and...to be renewed at the level of the work place, the locality, the city, the region, the republic, the central committee, and the Politburo...
...Brockett and other faculty members downplay the level of dissatisfaction with the school, saying it is restricted to only a handful of professors...
...What is interesting about this operation is that we take anyone who walks in and that we are in the business of showing that people who self-select to come here do very well in courses that are not different in their level of rigor from term-time courses," Buck says...
...Nearly four months after the spill, there is no proof that Hazelwood was drunk when his ship ran aground. In fact, his crewmates claim he was not. A test given about ten hours after the grounding found that his blood-alcohol level was a little more than half the 0.1% drunk-driving limit set by the state of Alaska and 50% higher than the 0.04% limit set by the Coast Guard for seamen operating a moving ship. Some toxicologists have suggested that Hazelwood may have had a severely high 0.22% blood-alcohol level when the ship struck the reef...
Wall Street had anticipated the Delaware ruling, sending Time's share price tumbling for several weeks on growing speculation that the company would stave off the Paramount bid. Time stock finished trading Friday at 145 1/4, down 6 1/4 points for the week but at the general level where analysts expect it to settle, at least briefly, if the Time-Warner deal goes through. Warner stock closed at 64 1/2, up 2 3/4, on the increased likelihood that Time would be able to carry out its tender offer. Paramount, which has been rumored to be a possible takeover target itself...