Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball moves into the 1990s, this Met fan is having a little identity crisis of his own, his second one. Everyone hates the Mets. And I'm beginning to wonder if all those people don't have a point...
...president and the governors met for only two days at the education summit. Their intention was not to establish a comprehensive national education policy, but simply to identify areas in education that need improvement. Little more can be expected in a two-day period from people who do not profess to be education experts...
...think that's bad? You had Willie Mays. You had Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World," the Blue Jay fan said. "You guys have more than met your quota on winning for this century...
After ten years of a bloody civil war that has claimed some 70,000 lives, there are no eternal optimists left in El Salvador. Blind hope went out of fashion after then President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with failure in three meetings with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Since the last talks in 1987, the two sides have dug in with renewed determination. Now, four months after Alfredo Cristiani, 41, succeeded Duarte as President, there is new talk of reconciliation. Representatives of the government and the F.M.L.N. met two weeks ago in Mexico City...
...empire that have bedeviled Czars and party leaders alike. Nevertheless, the outcome was noticeably flat and predictable. The party's new platform offered vague promises of economic and cultural autonomy to the 15 national republics but warned that secession or the revision of borders was unacceptable. Violence would be met with the "full force of Soviet laws," the platform warned. Yet all this has been said before, and seems unlikely to end the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh or cool the breakaway passions in the Baltic states. On Friday the Lithuanian Communist Party defied Moscow with a declaration that...