Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor have a built-in defense against runaway crack abuse: they run out of money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...
East Berlin, of course, wants no part of any reunification dialogue. For East Germany, reunification means political obliteration. Only West Germans talk eagerly about the prospect of regaining through peace what they lost through war. For many of them, the question is no longer if reunification can happen; the question is how soon. The vision is for a new Europe that extends to the Soviet border and beyond -- with a united Germany in the middle of the emerging entity. Says Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "If the Germans say, 'We belong together,' then no matter how long it may take...
...Students say love can wait," proclaims the headline, which goes on to chronicle the stale and dispassionate narratives of several Boston-area undergraduate couples who, although "their romance has lasted longer than many marriages," and who "love each other, or at least [and here's the rub!] like each other a lot," have agreed to a mutual parting of the ways at the end of their undergraduate careers...
...escort service was established to provide members of the Harvard community with a safe means of transportation between two points within the Harvard community. The policy of the service is to provide transportation when there is no alternative except to walk alone--when the shuttle bus is longer running or when it is unsafe to walk...
William G. Bikales, a graduate student in economics, has been interested in Chinese literature for a long time, and in collecting books for even longer. About 15 years ago, the owners of a bookstore got him started on a collection of translations of Chinese poetry, including those of Ezra Pound and Arthur Waley...