Word: polars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alarming and delicious fears in settled souls whose timid question is "Why?" But Dr. Livingstone has been found (alive on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, in 1871, by Anglo-American Journalist Henry Morton Stanley), the Atlantic has been flown in a single-engine aircraft (by Lindbergh, in 1927), the polar regions have been explored (by an assortment of frauds and heroes), the world has been circumnavigated singlehanded (first by Joshua Slocum from 1895 to 1898), and all of the 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meters (26,400 ft.) have been climbed. Space is there to be rummaged...
...colleague from the Institute, Shamul Sultanov, said both countries must take notice that the world is no longer bi-polar. "We must take into consideration the increasing complexity and mustn't make our values seem like the values of the whole world...
...despite the staggered stages of political development, the two regions have expressed similar ideas about such development. Both Walesa and Fuentes implied that such progress is not ideological and thus unattainable, but inherent in human nature. Walesa pointed his argument towards the hard line bi-polar view of the Soviet Union, arguing that "the workers starting the strike and the process of transformation did not refer to the classics of Marxism-Leninism. They referred to the simplest natural rights due man upon his very birth in accordance with common sense." In turn, Fuentes aimed the same observations at the equally...
Since the activism and criticism died down, the Center has expanded greatly from the small, cohesive group it once was, reacting to an increasingly complex, multi-polar world picture...
...first is that Living With Nuclear Weapons is making a very late entrance onto a very crowded stage. Dozens of trashy nuclear books have flooded America since the early months of the Reagan Administration, and more important, many Americans have accepted polar positions that will prove hard to abandon. President Bok deserves much credit for being the catalyst of the finest nuclear study yet, but his efforts might have paid off better had they come sooner. Public education works best when it is both subtle and early. The belated Harvard presence--the white knight from Cambridge come to rescue...