Word: needed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurried along his route, that his hosts gained nerve and expressed not only their conviction that Communism was a botch but also their uncertainty about how to untangle their political and economic messes. "We are where you were in 1776," Hungary's party president, Rezso Nyers, told Bush. "We need a currency that is convertible. The question is, Can we get it fast enough to keep things moving? We know that reform means instability in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. At the same time, we know we need foreign capital. Most basic is, How do we reform...
...found" in the great civil rights struggles of the 1960s and vowed that his party will change. He called on South Africa to "let our people go." But such pleasantries inevitably faded as he addressed the mess at HUD, earnestly vowing that he would "work for the people in need, not those motivated by greed" and would not allow HUD's troubles to become "an excuse to close down programs for poor folks...
...would be lifted by the rising tide of national interest and funding. Unmanned probes to the planets would continue, and NASA would still be able to launch the Mission to Planet Earth, a series of satellites designed to study the planet's environment and give scientists the information they need to head off ecological disaster...
...problems with the Louisiana law, which was designed with the laudable goal of protecting the embryo from experimental misuse or casual destruction. For example, does the statute's definition of the zygote as a juridical person mean that it has inheritance rights? Many secular experts argue that an embryo need not have the protection accorded human life until the fetus begins to take on recognizable features -- roughly, at the sixth week of pregnancy. But because of its human potential, these ethicists say, the frozen embryo should not be treated as mere tissue. Thus they see the donation of an embryo...
...Left and was ready to start work. But when Cabinet members arrived at their offices last week, some found them stripped of files and equipment. Tzannis Tzannetakis, the new Prime Minister, was greeted by a single staffer, who told him, "Everything has been looked after, so there is no need for files...