Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet the literal destruction of the Wall would, in many respects, be redundant. Honecker's successor, Egon Krenz, has promised that most East German travel restrictions will be lifted, making it possible for citizens to travel freely to the West. The thousands who jammed the West German embassy in Prague...
Uruguay's President Julio Maria Sanguinetti, chatting with George Bush, spotted him first. Sanguinetti muttered a low warning to the U.S. President that Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, who had just entered the room at Costa Rica's Hotel Cariari, was headed toward them. Bush squared himself, picking up the Sandinista...
Eric Dlugokinski, a University of Oklahoma psychologist, believes five-year- olds need to spend some time away from home, but, for late bloomers, an academically oriented kindergarten may not be the right environment. If a child does poorly in a first school experience, "that failure is very hard to eradicate...
Election officials estimated the "quota" of votes needed for election at 2698, meaning that 850 of Wolf's votes will be transferred to candidates who were lower choices on her first-place ballots.
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; $18.95). It is 1956, and an aging English butler looks back on his decades of service in a stately house. The meaning of his memories is not always clear to him, but it is to the reader, thanks to Japanese-born...