Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the day Turkey's generals took power in a bloodless coup in 1980, they promised to return the country to democracy as soon as they thought possible. But over the past five months, the regime of President Kenan Evren, 65, has cracked down, sometimes harshly, on journalists, academics...
Despite the inauspicious start, the event was something of a milestone. It marked the beginning of the most sophisticated search yet for evidence of intelligent life in the vast realms of space beyond the earth. Under a pledge of $120,000 from the Planetary Society, an organization of space advocates...
To the annoyance of fellow conservatives, Safire is equally freewheeling in attacking the competence and judgment of members of the Reagan Administration whenever he happens to disagree with them. He has upbraided Presidential Pollster Richard Wirthlin for accepting a polling contract from Americans who sympathize with the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's pledge to increase local aid by more than $150 million over last year has drawn praise from municipal officials who say that for the first time in three years they will be able to maintain a constant level of services, rather than cutting back drastically...
The announcement was stunning, not only for the historic implications of the crack in OPEC but also because the cut is even larger than it seems. A barrel of Nigeria's Bonny Light crude, once refined, yields a higher-priced product mix than does the Arabian Light oil on...