Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krenz hurled a stinging attack on his predecessor and long-time political patron Erich Honecker, and communist authorities took the first steps toward registering New Forum, the nation's largest pro-democracy group...
...committee elevated four new members to thePolitburo, the nation's most powerfuldecision-making body. They included Hans Modrow,the 61-year-old Dresden party chief who is said tobe a leading advocate for democratic reforms and acandidate for the post of premier...
...said the responsibility for the nation'sturmoil rested with those party members "who madesubjective decisions over the important questionsin the society by thinking that this was theopinion of all party members...
David N. Dinkins won election as New York City's first Black mayor, while L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia clung to a slender lead over Republican J. Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation's first elected Black governor...
...start with, the mortgage interest deduction has the National Association of Realtors (NAR), one of the richest and most powerful lobbies in the nation, steadfastly behind it. When former Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan's tax reform plan proposed eliminating the the mortgage interest deduction for vacation homes, NAR president David Roberts denounced it as a prescription for "less growth in the American standard of living and a lower quality of life...