Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Khatami had squeezed through the conservative-controlled vetting process despite making no secret of his commitment to building a more open civil society in Iran, widening democracy, entrenching the rule of law and normalizing Iran?s relations with the international community. After all, he is a cleric and a veteran of the revolution, and is able to articulate his aims as consistent with its original goals. But his landslide victory was a repudiation of Khameini?s hard-line policies, and the conservatives immediately launched a counterattack, arresting key supporters on corruption charges, attacking liberal theologians and closing down reformist newspapers...
Luckily a situation availed itself early on. Struggling to haul a load of boxes upstairs, I was confronted with a door that wouldn't stay open long enough to pull my hand truck through, and, to my delight, a handsome young man willing to hold it open. I graciously thanked him and smiled coyly like I imagined a sorority girl would do. We rode the elevator upstairs together...
DIED. DR. C. WALTON LILLEHEI, 80, surgical pioneer; of cancer; in St. Paul, Minn. Lillehei performed the first successful open-heart surgery, on a five-year-old girl, in 1952. He was instrumental in developing the wearable pacemaker and artificial heart valves...
ROTATE FACIAL GEARS to make Furby sleep with his eyes open...
MUSICAL NOTE "Music will open a way Calls Romeo and Juliet to dialogue and erase film theme "a very the bitterness" emotional and moving piece...