Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scientists were gathering deepwater samples yesterday, and they placed equipment near the sunken ship that would monitor radiation levels for years...
...overall Soviet economy remains a near shambles. The budget deficit -- caused in part by transfusions to anemic factories and by subsidies for food and housing -- is about 11% of the GNP, by some estimates. The ruble, arbitrarily said to be worth $1.60 but not freely convertible into dollars or other Western currencies, brings as little as 10 cents on the black market. But price controls have repressed the latent inflation, and people have more paper money -- about 300 billion rubles in savings -- than there are goods available for purchase...
...stories about black vans that drove every night into a fenced enclosure in the Kurapaty forest, about gunshots and screams waking villagers who lived nearby. But not until last spring did the full horror begin to be known. Workers digging a trench for a gas pipeline through the forest near Minsk came across a heap of human skulls pierced by bullets from Nagant revolvers fired at close range. The prosecutor of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic set up a commission to investigate the murders. Last July more skulls and bones were unearthed, along with paraphernalia of everyday life -- remnants...
...Hall takeover had six--divided into two distinct categories. The first three called for the abolition of ROTC and compensation for the students receiving ROTC scholarships. The next three concerned community issues, calling on Harvard to freeze rents in University-owned buildings and to preserve the homes of workers near new University developments at the Kennedy School of Government and the Medical School...
Said Sheridan L. Haines, who lives near thelot, "It was inevitable, and all we can do isaccept...