Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the time we didn't know that my father had already decided to retire without putting up a fight. Late at night he called Mikoyan and said that if everyone wanted to relieve him of his posts, he would not object. Our telephone was bugged and his words became...
Just before Margaret Thatcher's visit to Poland last week, Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski had nothing but praise for her firmness in tackling Britain's economic problems. "I would very much like to be a pupil in her school," said Rakowski. Polish officials admired her effectiveness in curbing unions that...
The scene is de rigueur in any self-respecting cinematic crime thriller: an officer grabs the patrol-car mike and announces, "Officers in hot pursuit." Sirens blare, lights flash, hearts and motors race. Sometimes the chase is exhilarating, as in Bullitt. Sometimes it is comic, as in Smokey and the...
When the gates are up, they will oscillate with the sea. Thus even as they hold back the water, they will allow the sea's wave motion to pass to the lagoon. This will help prevent the gates from making the lagoon more stagnant and polluted. "The technology isn't...
Whatever the verdict on Tuesday, whatever the margin of victory, that lingering question has already marred the mantle of legitimacy that would otherwise surround the new President. Nothing, for example, could be more specious than Bush's desperate claims in the waning days of the campaign, "If I win, it...