Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Breifer adds that aside from the usual towels and garbage cans, the only other minor trinket given out will be soap. However, she says that she doubts anybody will take the soap home as a reminder of their stay at Harvard during reunion week...
...Everest of earthly problems," says Roger Molander, a nuclear expert formerly with the U.S. National Security Council, who now heads the Washington-based Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. "But that was before I understood nuclear proliferation. It makes the superpower arms race look like a comparatively minor league problem." Says Charles Ebinger of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It's probably the most pessimistic issue I've ever dealt with. Nobody seems to come up with any solutions, myself included...
...eleventh. The trio later denied that they knew the ultimate purpose of the exports. One of them said that the equipment was for use in a textile plant and a food-processing factory. In the end, two of the men paid fines of $3,000 each on a minor charge: failing to obtain an export permit...
Brewster's Millions shows Pryor borrowing bits of the Murphy magic. Walter Hill directed Murphy's first hit, 48 HRS. Harris and Weingrod wrote Murphy's funniest movie, Trading Places. Their plot, based on the old George Barr McCutcheon wheeze, has an aging minor-league pitcher bequeathed $300 million on the condition that he spend $30 million in the next 30 days...
...office at the Sief palace, a small Japanese-make car drove head-on into the convoy. The vehicle exploded, killing the driver, two guards in the convoy's two lead cars and a passerby. The Emir, who was traveling farther back in the motorcade, escaped with minor cuts. In a telephone statement, Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, claimed responsibility for the attack, and once again demanded the release of 17 terrorists being held in a Kuwaiti jail...