Word: overing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Board's jurisdiction over investment policy is unclear, and many Board members may have difficulty becoming accustomed to an adversarial relationship with the Corporation. Immediate divestment seems doubtful, although it would not be surprising if the administration gradually removed its attachments to apartheid over the next few years.
Once Barry wowed critics with a sharp mind, penetrating questions and a phenomenal recall of names, faces and dates. Now his steel-trap mind is rusty. In a recent interview, Barry's fatigue overwhelmed him. His face sagged, his eyelids drooped. He talked haltingly, stopping often to gaze at the...
Medvedev shows the dictator and his secret-police chief during the Great Terror as they sat for hours hunched over the lists of hundreds of names Stalin would okay for execution, one by one, before the working day ended. Stalin was fond of lavishing kindness on his friends, even as...
How could such a monster gain absolute ascendancy over the Soviet Union? In this book Medvedev backs away from his earlier position that Stalinism was essentially an aberration on the road to a more benevolent Communism envisioned by Lenin. The historian has re-examined the totalitarian system created by Lenin...
If Washington politicians strictly followed the U.S. Military Academy's hallowed honor code, the great ethics war in the nation's capital would be over, and all the scoundrels would be gone. "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," the West Point creed commands...