Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Abe Stolar left with his parents for the Soviet Union in 1931, his native West Side Chicago neighborhood babbled with Yiddish and Polish. Now Spanish fills the air around Humboldt Park, Murray F. Tuley High School has become Jose De Diego Academy, and the place where Stolar's home once stood is a vacant lot. But to Stolar, 77, back last week after 58 years in the U.S.S.R., it felt familiar. "It's wonderful," he said. "I feel 60 years younger...
...suit is for a sophisticated dresser who is not interested in tanning," says Kamali, "but is being more specific about what looks good on her." Any skin-protection benefits, of course, are minimal: a few extra inches of fabric are no substitute for a No. 20 sunblock -- or a place in the shade...
...setting was an unlikely place to announce the largest corporate takeover in Britain. Employees of Consolidated Gold Fields, the world's second largest gold producer, had gathered last week at the London Zoo for a dinner party to celebrate the company's rebuff in May of a hostile takeover bid by South African-controlled Minorco. Not until the meal was over did ConsGold Chairman Rudolph Agnew inform his troops that the company's board had accepted a $5.5 billion takeover bid from Hanson PLC, the $12.5 billion British group whose holdings include Jacuzzi and Farberware...
...events which have taken place in the People's Republic of China during the last three months have not gone unnoticed among the 178 Chinese nationals currently studying at Harvard, or the thousands of others around the country...
...Supreme Court's nine justices, split as widely as the rest of the population, temporarily deferred on the issue of abortion to the people, through their state legislatures. Although some anti-abortion activists are claiming victory after Webster, the Court's decision to allow state legislatures to place some restrictions on abortion merely signals the start of the battle...