Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much money very often, learning how people are supposed to disagree. It's true what people say about learning as much outside the classroom as inside. And everyone, even those who come primarily to study in Science Center sub-basements, look at Harvard as a machine for laying on polish...
Coaches wishing to practice this speech should polish their Bibilical metaphors...
Ironically, what defeated the initiative of Polish Leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski was an electoral provision designed to foil any attempt by opposition forces, however unlikely, to hold a referendum someday on abandoning the Communist system. Under that rule, approval requires a majority not merely of those who actually vote but of everyone eligible to do so. Thus, ( while approximately two-thirds of those who went to the polls voted in favor of both issues on last week's referendum, both were defeated. Only 44% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters responded affirmatively to a question on economic reform...
Shock, despair, terror and anger grip the Caribbean nation after goon squads abort balloting, leaving at least 50 civilians dead and raising troubling questions about army complicity. -- Polish voters reject a government- proposed program of economic reform and austerity. -- With the U. S.- backed rebels gaining, the Soviets seek a quick exit from Afghanistan...
COVER: A passion for urban restoration brings polish and pizazz back downtown...