Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moves demonstrated Gorbachev's firm control at the pinnacle of Soviet power at a time when economic failures and ethnic violence prompted some Soviets to fret openly about the possibility of a coup or civil war. Gorbachev is both the nation's president and the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
...stark reality is that the movement's message has become like a tiresome and empty reverberation of a steel drum upon disinterested ears. If minorities are ever to move beyond the call for true equality and actually achieve it on all levels in this nation, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s has got to give way to an updated version suitable for the 1990s...
Little Cubs: Will someone on the Columbia campus finally admit that its football team has had one of the most pathetic histories of any team in the nation? Not including Kansas State, of course...
...that cause the massive state deficits, allowing the central bank greater autonomy in setting monetary policy and overhauling the primitive system of tax collection that enables economic elites to get a free ride) Argentina will likely recover, though the process will inevitably be very long and painful for the nation...
...only did Alfonsin lead the nation out of the depths of the "dirty war" of the late 1970s and early 1980s and successfully prosecuted leading members of the brutal military junta responsible for the "disappearance" of more than 9000 alleged "subversives" during this period, but he also tried to democratize the unions. Predictably, his legislation calling for rank-and-file elections of union leaders was defeated by Peronist opposition in the Senate...