Word: overly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan's new book, Speaking My Mind, allows him to speak his mind the second time a little differently. In a March 4, 1987, speech on the day of the Tower commission report, Reagan said he "didn't ask enough about the specifics of the total Iran plan." In...
As Yeltsin listened glumly, Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin told stunned members of the Supreme Soviet about how one night last month their colleague showed up dripping wet at a police outpost in the bosky Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky...
Indeed, as humans, with a powerful sense of our own species' capacity for evil, we are more alarmed by the intrusion of hunters into the animals' territory than these creatures, guided by untutored instinct rather than bitter experience, can possibly be. We fear for the older bear's life as...
Anderson's new home was donated by a church in nearby Pearl to a nonprofit organization called MadCAAP -- short for Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty -- which helps poor people in one of the poorest parts of the nation. Financed solely by donations and grants, MadCAAP takes old wood-frame buildings...
After a trip to Pearl city hall to write one last check, Malone heads back to the site. The Mississippi Power & Light man is already there, and a Pearl police officer stops by to inform Malone that the move will be delayed until after a funeral passes through town. Malone...