Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush may still get a front-row seat at Hirohito's funeral in Tokyo, but an American Ambassador in Bangkok is more likely these days than in the past to be kept cooling his heels in the anteroom of a Prime Minister's office -- and less likely to get the U.S. Government's way once he is admitted. In short, American economic problems have become a national security and foreign policy issue...
Havel, 52, is not only a playwright and essayist but also a popular Czech hero who has firsthand knowledge of the Prague regime's harsh treatment of dissidents. In the past two decades he has spent a total of 4 1/2 years behind bars for his activities as a founding member of the Charter 77 human rights organization...
...economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time to time but never any present danger. Now, however, comes fresh evidence that inflation may be making a comeback at a time when it could play havoc with the aging economic expansion and the new Administration. A serious rise in prices would force the Federal Reserve to fight back by pushing interest...
...enemy, now its envy. A ruler once a god, in fact a slight, shy man fond of jellyfish but devoted to imperial duty. The interment of Emperor Showa, called Hirohito in his lifetime, bringing together admirers of Japan's modern ascent with the rites of a hallowed but controversial past. The burial too of an era that will lay to rest a history of barbaric militarism and shattering defeat, freeing Japan to move into a new age of unapologetic economic supremacy. All in all, it was as haunting and impressive a funeral as the century is likely...
...premier American-born dancemaker, whose works for the ballet and Broadway suavely merged high art with pop culture. Robbins has always been a spellbinding storyteller; the narrative clarity of each movement instantly draws viewers into the roiling emotional life of his characters. In his comic ballets, visual gags fly past like precision pies in a Keystone caper. This show proves he is back where he belongs, on a street that belongs to him: Jerome Robbins' Broadway. He has prepared meticulously for this moment: nine months of research, 75 days of rehearsal and seven weeks of preview performances. "I wasn...