Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the 1980s the minimum wage has really lived up to its name. Since it was last raised to $3.35 an hour in 1981, inflation has eroded its purchasing power by 27%. Meanwhile, the Reagan era became famous for skyrocketing maximum wages as greed became fashionable throughout the land. Frustrated...
A. If you want me to be frank, there is a view that the U.S. hopes to exploit our domestic difficulties and force unilateral concessions from us. But if there are such hopes, they are deeply wrong, because where the interests of Soviet security are concerned, no matter how big...
A. You are posing a hypothetical question. As of now this has not happened. In Poland and Hungary certain internal processes are going on, but these countries have made clear that they will remain members of the Warsaw Pact, with all their obligations. We have dropped the idea of attaching...
Caro's first Johnson volume, The Path to Power, was published in 1982 and proved Corcoran wrong. In comprehensive and forceful detail, it followed Johnson from the lonely Texas hill country, out from under the humiliating shadow of his failed father. The book ended with his unexpected defeat in a...
Saul is vividly recollected from the old days: Jewish, with springy red hair and a purplish birthmark covering the right half of his face. He is distinguished also by his growing interest in the tribes of Amazonia and their right to survive. The narrator recalls provoking his friend on this...