Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insult to injury, it was a Harvard Law School dean who maneuvered the proposal past the city's legal defenses and onto the ballot. City councillors declared a war of words against Harvard when Dean James M. Landis, head of the Cambridge Committee for Plan E, helped force the proposal onto Cambridge's November 1938 ballot...
...service a few years ago, TRW has persuaded 600,000 cautious customers to sign up. But privacy experts point out that TRW is selling information that federal law requires it to provide for $2 to $15, depending on the state, or, if consumers have been denied credit in the past 30 days, for free...
Though the army turned out to hold the balance of power last week, its influence has fluctuated over the past four decades. For the first three years after the 1949 Communist seizure of the mainland, China for all practical ; purposes was run by the military. After the transition to civilian rule in 1954, the army played a subordinate role, even though it had enough seats on such institutions as the Politburo, the Central Committee and the National People's Congress to guarantee its power base within the party structure...
...Capitol Hill, the U.S. strikes out against Japanese trade barriers, but critics fear that tough action may rupture relations with a critical ally. -- While most Americans think Tokyo's trading manners are still one-sided, the Japanese argue that they have come a long way from their closed-door past. -- A small Arkansas town welcomes the Japanese invasion...
...been rumored to be dying of a heart condition or cancer for much of the past decade, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 89, has displayed remarkable longevity. Last week, though, doctors performed surgery on the religious leader to stop what was officially described as "bleeding in his digestive system." Providing a rare and somewhat bizarre glimpse at the Imam's private life, Iranian television actually broadcast scenes from the operating room...