Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harshest blasts came from Vladimir Melnikov, the party boss from the Komi region, in the northeastern part of the Russian Republic. He charged that today's problems could not simply be attributed to past leaders. "We are duty bound to admit that many mistakes and miscalculations have been made in the years of perestroika too." In fact, he wondered if the real truth were being kept from Gorbachev by aides who were "clearly guarding the General Secretary from the severity of the situation...
...past few weeks the world has taken a cool look at George Bush as he neared a milestone: his first 100 days in the Oval Office. Bush has gazed back at the people and the country and has formed impressions of his own. Listen...
...thing I like to share with people is the Truman Balcony. You're looking across at the ((Washington)) Monument and at the Jefferson Memorial. And you see the people sometimes. If we were there right now, we'd see the people looking up past those beautiful flowers and fountains. You see the people's house symbolized by the people looking in. It's not some naive view. We're talking about the people's house, and a continuity. I said to Prime Minister Zaid Rifai,* "You guys have to come out here and see something before you leave...
Although Detroit's automakers have designed and built every type of car imaginable in the past 90 years, they have never produced a world-class sports car that could match a Porsche or a Ferrari...
...commit on a clear April night in Central Park. Looking, they said, for something to do, they roamed the park's northern reaches, splintering into smaller groups and allegedly assaulting one hapless victim after another. Finally, one pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. According to police, they chased her into a gully, then spent the next half an hour beating her senseless with a rock and a metal pipe, raping her and leaving her for dead. When she was found three hours later, she had lost three-quarters...