Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When some 200,000 Budapest students and workers marched to the parliament building on Kossuth Square on Oct. 23, they had no thought of overthrowing the Communist regime. They wanted mainly to petition the leadership for various reforms, including the return to power of a moderate Communist leader, Imre Nagy...
The events in Lithuania should not have come as a real surprise. Ethnic separatism has always been Gorbachev's blind spot, a yearning for which the Soviet President has neither sympathy nor patience. Though he likes to claim he is simply "enforcing the constitution," he has been consistent in his...
From then on, the suspense steadily increased. Would Israel continue to heed , U.S. and allied pleas not to strike back, or was it being goaded beyond endurance? If it did retaliate, could the U.S. hold the anti-Iraq coalition together, or might some of its Arab members bolt? How much...
Tax chiselers are not expected to benefit much from similar pleas. The decision does not change the obligation of all nonpayers to pay any back taxes due, plus interest and applicable civil penalties. Last week's ruling affects only criminal convictions, which must be based on "willful" violations. Still, dissenting...
But the new Dark Shadows is drained of blood well before Barnabas bares his fangs. The pace is funereal; the plot twists, pure gothic boiler plate. There's the fresh-faced governess who arrives at the mansion to tutor an eerily disturbed child; the slow-witted groundskeeper who is enslaved...