Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexandra P. Biryukova, the highest-ranking woman in the Soviet hierarchy, gained an alternate, or non-voting, Politburo spot, as did Anatoly I. Lukyanov and Interior Minister Alexander. V. Vlasov, the nation's top policeman...
Today's game will feature two of the best quarterbacks in Division I-AA football. Harvard's Tom Yohe, the nation's third-ranked passer, has completed 55 percent of his passes for 496 yards and four touchdowns. Last Saturday against the University of Massachuetts, Yohe produced a career-high 363 yards of total offense...
ALTHOUGH I am white and middle-class, I grew up not far from the all-Black Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, one of the first and largest high-rise housing projects in the nation. My family would have to drive by them when we left our neighborhood to shop, and I was always frightened by the mysterious, ghost-town atmosphere that hung over the homes. As I grew older, I learned to be frightened by the stories of drugs, gangster wars and filthy conditions told to me by friends who had friends in the projects and by the evening news...
Lift-off was the first and most important milestone, but more was at stake than simply getting into space. The two-year grounding of the shuttle fleet set back the nation's satellite delivery capability, and the release of a communications satellite was the main order of business in orbit, several hours after launch...
...University's library system is thought to be one of the nation's most conservative, concerned more with maintaining the size of its holdings than with experimenting with new technology, Verba said...