Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev's main business, as usual, was promoting his favorite diplomatic theme of a "common European home," through which he seeks to place the Soviet Union in the Continent's political mainstream. Mitterrand gave at least partial credence to such a concept, saying that for the first time in 50 years, Europeans have a chance to take "the path of reconciliation." Many French remain dubious. Warns former Foreign Minister Jean Francois Poncet: "Gorbachev's common European home is a bid to engulf the European Community in a wider enterprise dominated by the Soviet Union...
...precious free time at a shopping mall. In fact, their well-composed snapshots come from the pages of America's popular new crop of mail-order catalogs: Lands' End,* J. Crew and Tweeds. These three retailers are reaping handsome sales by offering sporty, preppy wear to customers who are partial to natural fibers and toll-free shopping. Last year the three companies mailed a total of more than 120 million catalogs to prospective customers in all 50 states...
Lands' End, J. Crew and Tweeds reap handsome sales by offering preppie wear to baby boomers who are partial to natural fibers but too busy to go to the mall...
...Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species are expected to declare the African elephant endangered, which would make the ivory trade illegal in those countries. Not waiting for a worldwide ban, the U.S. and the E.C. decided last month to stop ivory imports immediately. Japan followed suit with a partial ban that would reduce its ivory imports to a trickle...
...years, Frances Garfinkle was confined to her bed by partial blindness, hearing loss and incontinence. Her husband Harry, 78, a retired Philadelphia wallpaper hanger, endured her constant nagging. But in January, when Frances complained about a meal Harry had prepared, the strain became too much: Garfinkle strangled her with a necktie...