Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Hanson, a specialist in Near Eastern religions, takes over Dudley amid a dispute over the direction of Harvard's only non-resident house between the previous masters and the College administration...
...this book as a unique individual who put his personal stamp on the church, but he is most fascinating on the subject of the present Pontiff, John Paul II. In a highly unusual private dinner with the author, the Pope confided that he "could sense" his own election near the beginning of 1978's second conclave. Wynn's most provocative assertion: the Vatican at the "highest level" believes that the Soviet Union engineered the 1981 attempt on John Paul's life in order to deprive the restive Poles of their leading symbol of national identity...
...near tragedy exposed some operational flaws in a Soviet space program that, in manned flight at least, has far outstripped its U.S. counterpart. American experts said the Kremlin had precipitately scheduled the mission as a gesture of Soviet-Afghan friendship before Soviet troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan early next year. The hurried launch gave the three- man crew only six months to prepare as a team for a voyage that normally requires a full year of intensive training. Soviet space officials later conceded that the cosmonauts may have "lost vigilance" during the flight...
...have adjustable interest rates, few S and Ls should be savaged, as they were in the early 1980s, by having to pay high rates to depositors while receiving low yields on long-term mortgages. Furthermore, real estate prices in the Southwest cannot stay depressed forever. "We're at or near the bottom of the cycle for the Texas economy," says William Gibson, a former Continental Illinois banker who, with other investors, last month paid $48 million for twelve troubled Texas S and Ls (combined assets: $2.4 billion...
...Kurds are expected to take up Iraq's offer while fear and resentment over the recent attacks are running so high. At a camp near the Turkish village of Ortakoy last week, 7,000 exhausted refugees were fighting malaria, diarrhea and intestinal diseases from their journey. There was scant physical evidence of either chemical or gas bombings, but refugees said those victims had not lived to carry their tales across the border. In a primitive medical clinic, Caglayan Cucen, a Turkish doctor, said he would never forget treating a little Kurdish girl for an injured foot. "She was crying...