Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media hype and lunacy has abated, ((I am)) left simply with a gut feeling of frustration. Had to learn the hard way the lexicon of the 80's and discover exactly what "spin" means. The truth hasn't been allowed to come to the fore either for any number of legal reasons or it wasn't lurid enough for print or airing...
...will include about 90% of the city's streets. The revised maps come just in time. Warming relations between East and West have brought a flood of visitors. U.S. travel to the Soviet Union with Intourist has doubled since 1984, to more than 75,000 visitors last year. The number would be higher but for the shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that are closed to visitors. "Maps are really not a requirement," observes Dutch traveler Robert...
...Delaware Supreme Court will have the final say in the matter, but a number of legal experts said they doubted that Allen's ruling would be overturned. The Supreme Court, they noted, has generally upheld Delaware's "business judgment rule," and has been even more forceful than the Chancery Court in giving corporate directors broad freedom to set long-range policy for their companies. Stanford University law professor Ronald Gilson disagrees with the ruling because he feels shareholders should have more rights in takeover battles, but he doubts the decision will be overturned: "If the Paramount arguments were not persuasive...
...chapter on Lenin is the first addition. But the greater number of new chapters came from the fact that, with the years, I understood that the movement toward revolution and its causes could not be understood simply in terms of World War I, 1914. My initial conception was one that the majority of those in the West and East today share, namely that the main decisive event was the so-called October Revolution and its consequences. But it became clear to me gradually that the main and decisive event was not the October Revolution, and that it wasn...
...Terry Branstad visited Haynes' bedside and said at a news conference, "He was quite emotional about the situation, and tears came to his eyes when he talked about the number of people who lost their lives....I told him he did a valiant...