Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getting the country back into shape will not be easy. Machel, 46, a onetime medical orderly, came to power as the leader of the liberation movement that led Mozambique to independence from Portugal in 1975. Despite his pleas for whites to stay, most of them fled, leaving the country bereft...
Rather than yielding to the pleas of special interest groups to prop up badly managed and uncompetitive firms, the government usually tries to purge the economy of them as quickly and smoothly as possible. When Japan's shipbuilding industry, which accounts for fully 50% of the world's...
The tension bursts over curtain calls. Pavarotti takes a disputed solo bow, so Scotto refuses to take her final bow. As the loudspeaker calls her repeatedly to the stage, she sits in her dressing room, ignoring Mansouri's just praise and his fervent pleas. There will be no bow...
The Department of Education, after all, had only squeeked by the House by 14 votes and in the opinion of many, as one Congressman bluntly put it, Carter's support for it represented "a political payoff in every sense of the word." Then candidate Carter had picked up the first...
That attitude is pure, unblinking realism. Higgins' exposure to justice began with a stint as a court reporter for the Associated Press, developed through law school and appointments as a Massachusetts assistant attorney general and an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and continues in the criminal-law practice he has maintained...