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Word: movingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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For years South Korea has been a problem waiting to happen. Chun seized power in 1980, moving into the vacuum created a year earlier by the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, his longtime mentor. The product of a modest rural background, Chun was graduated from South Korea's military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Under Siege | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

From where the poet sat one recent afternoon, the boats appeared to be moving through tall grass. It was a serene illusion. The tawny-green South Carolina marsh spread for a mile, hiding the waterway so that only decks and sails were visible. Playing off the seen against the unseen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Into The Wild, Mystical Yonder ALNILAM | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Less than 65 hours before the polls opened, Thatcher flew by private jet to the seven-nation Venice summit, where the televised image of her moving easily among major world leaders was not lost on voters. At his last campaign rally, Kinnock mocked the Venice trip before a crowd in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain All Revved Up | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

That final, cocky gesture was typical of Kinnock, who entered the campaign with a reputation as a political lightweight. In just over 3 1/2 years as Labor's leader he had rarely bested Thatcher in their almost weekly jousts during the Prime Minister's question time in the House of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain All Revved Up | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Most Hong Kong enterprises avoid such bad vibrations by contracting with a feng shui master while their buildings are still in the planning stage. The ultramodern $650 million Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building, which the Bank of China tower would rival for dominance of the city's skyline, prudently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas How to Keep the Dragons Happy | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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