Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairing the judiciary committee hearings that denied former Solicitor General Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. But this is Biden's first event since February, when he was felled by a life-threatening brain aneurysm. Before he returns to Washington, before he bangs the gavel to open an important set of foreign policy hearings this Wednesday, before he grants any interviews, he wanted to come to the place where it all began so that he could begin again...
...brightened. Clad in scruffy trousers and jackets, some of the workers occupying the facility joked with one another and guzzled soft drinks. As the afternoon sun beat down on the Baltic port, 3,000 men gathered to sing the Polish national anthem. Then the gates of the shipyard swung open and the throng poured into the streets, marking the beginning of the end of the worst labor unrest to shake Poland since...
...been swept away. In a year of exciting political change, South Korea rewrote its constitution and in December 1987 held its first free presidential elections in 16 years. Most of its political prisoners were released. The press was allowed to operate freely, the door to political debate thrown open. Elections for a redistricted National Assembly, won by the opposition last April, confirmed a commitment to the electoral process...
Seoul hopes eventually to open channels to the North through its so-called Northern policy, an initiative born of Olympics contacts that is designed to shift South Korea away from its rigidly anti-Communist foreign policy. As yet the South has no formal diplomatic relations with a Communist country but hopes for change after the Games, with China first on the wish list...
...Chinese family, some Chinese social scientists regard them as largely positive. Citing statistics that show a doubling of the divorce rate in Beijing during a five-year period, Dr. Wu observes that they are a "reflection of women being less tied down by traditional mores and more open about their relationships." Unfortunately, the government's attitude has not evolved at a similar pace. The state no longer weighs down adulterers with stones and drowns them, but women viewed as promiscuous are still sometimes ( hustled off to re-education camps for crimes such as prostitution and adultery...