Word: postings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post-feminism, the working mother has occupied the center of attention. She is living proof, people say, of the fact that women can have it all--a career, a family, outside interests...
Yesterday, the 27th Army traded gunfire with the 28th Army, believed loyal to Zhao Ziyang, a moderate who challenged the conservatives and was stripped of his post as Communist Party leader. No casualties were reported...
...Some say the genie of democracy is out of the bottle, but history has shown it can be stuffed back in the bottle for a while," said Ronald P. Kriss '54, executive editor of Time magazine, citing as examples the post-war revolts in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the provisional government that ruled the Soviet Union from February to October...
...working legislature. In voting results announced Saturday, most anti-establishment candidates, some of whom had defeated high-ranking Communist Party members to reach the Congress, lost their bids to be seated in the Supreme Soviet. The rebuffed reformers included Boris Yeltsin, the former Moscow party chief who resigned his post in the Construction Ministry earlier in the week, partly in anticipation of being elected to the Supreme Soviet. Only in delegations from Moscow and the Baltic region, a seedbed of reform, did a handful of reformers gain election to the permanent legislature. The results were a severe blow to advocates...
...Democratic caucus. In one of those "accidents" of his career, he was chosen as House whip soon after, when Tip O'Neill's first two choices were not available. As whip, Foley added to his formidable reputation as a coalition builder, which helped him win the majority leader post when Wright climbed to the Speaker's chair...